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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Current Program strategy is also directed to stepping up efforts to reach every alumnus. This plan has three purposes: to increase the percentage of participation; to encourage those who have already given to contribute more, particularly in view of the extraordinarily high market in common stocks, and to encourage extended pledges of from three to five years...
...logic." But even if Communist figures could be trusted, Red China still has a long way to go before claiming to be a modern industrial state. Mainland China's rate of industrial growth last year was only half that of Japan's. By the end of its current six-year plan, Japan will have acquired new productive capacity greater than that of all the industrial plant Mao's China now has. The Chinese Communists have yet to produce an all-Chinese jet; their vaunted Manchurian "Detroit" still builds only a few thousand trucks a year, plus...
...latelys now in authority in Moscow. The Russians officially proclaim Mao to be "a major Marxist-Leninist theoretician,'' but his writings are not required reading among Russian party members, and his major pronouncements are dutifully printed without endorsement or criticism. An embarrassed silence greets Mao's current claim that his people's communes will bring true Communism to China in the foreseeable future, since after 41 years the Russians have yet to make such a leap to "true Communism...
Diminishing Rice Bowl. The central fact about Mao's China today, however, is that the bogeyman that in varying degrees haunts both the U.S. and Russia is still largely a bogeyman. If Peking's current statistics are questionable, its basic economic assumptions are even more so. That cottage industry can ever play a major role in transforming China into a modern industrial state is doubtful. As Peking has begun to admit, many of the mud-brick blast furnaces are vastly wasteful of coal and are located too far from major industrial centers to be of much value...
...lure of an Ivy-school degree is an important recruiting tool and, within limits, alumni can find a way. Of the 16 freshmen receiving scholarship help from the Harvard Club of Boston this year, 13 had either played varsity football or captained teams in other sports. The current Harvard freshman team boasts three rugged Oklahomans (two of them National Merit Scholars), amazed the experts by walloping the best Boston College freshman team in years. Yale came forth with a freshman squad exceptionally well-fixed at end, quarterback and fullback, precisely the weak spots on the current varsity...