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...named Tsai Chang. Soon both joined the Communist Party and were married. In 1924, after stopping off in Moscow, Li and his wife headed back to China, and, at the party's orders, went their separate ways-Tsai Chang to Shanghai to agitate among the workers in the cotton mills, Li Fu-chun to Canton to become an instructor at Chiang Kai-shek's Whampoa Military Academy, where Mao Tse-tung was briefly chief of propaganda...
Finding Scapegoats. Instead of the whopping 375 million tons of food grains originally claimed, Peking admitted a harvest of only 250 million-and most Western experts scaled that figure down to 210 million, only 25 million more than 1957, the year before the Great Leap Forward. The cotton total was cut by a third. Of the boasted 11 million tons of steel, only 8,000,000 were found "usable in industry." By this summer, the figures had fallen so low that Peking refused to announce them, but even observers friendly to the Reds estimate grain production at a mere...
...Shanghai, where failure of the cotton crop has paralyzed textile mills, unemployed workers are being used as street cleaners. And it is becoming hard even to die. In one Kwangtung area, the commune provides one coffin per month, first come, first served. Other corpses must be buried in paper cartons, though some families scrape together enough wood to make triangular coffins, saving on corners...
Addressing cotton growers in Tashkent, Khrushchev complained that although sown acreage had increased, production had decreased. "But those with low yields don't look for a smaller spoon at the table," he said. "Maybe such people should be given short pants and even wear them in winter so everyone could see that they hadn't grown up enough to wear normal-size pants. That's a joke, of course, comrades,'' added Jolly Nikita, "but I would like you to find a grain of truth in that joke...
...Bowl berth. Facing the Tigers will be Big Eight Champion Colorado, victor over Iowa by 34-0. Arkansas overwhelmed Texas Tech 28-0, for a trip to the Sugar Bowl, probably against top-ranked Alabama. Fifth-ranked Texas, which beat Texas A.&M. 25-0, is headed for the Cotton Bowl, most likely against sixth-ranked Mississippi, idle last week. And, though the big bowl games are a month off, undefeated Fresno State beat Bowling Green 36-6 in Los Angeles' Mercy Bowl, which aims to raise money for the families of 16 players killed in last year...