Word: ens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three weeks, the National People's Congress met in secret in Peking. In the vast, modernistic Great Hall of the People, 1,027 delegates gathered to hear the new line. Premier Chou En-lai and other top brass were seated beneath a tan, tasseled curtain bedecked with the huge, five-starred Red Chinese seal of state. All foreigners were barred, even representatives of Peking's one dependable European ally, little Albania...
Finally last week, Peking published a summary of Premier Chou En-lai's state of the nation speech to the Congress. Chou announced that China's economy had "begun to take a turn for the better." but this tepid claim was not supported by statistics of any kind, much less by the grandiose and Utopian figures that were trumpeted to the world in 1960. Chou blamed China's food shortage on "serious natural calamities," and dwelt far more on overcoming present difficulties than on striving for future victories...
With its home sector in disarray, there was some evidence that Red China may be willing to resolve its ideological quarrel with the Soviet Union. Before the Congress. Chou En-lai protested that China, as always, was "firmly and unswervingly" a friend of Russia, paid lip service to the Khrushchev line-usually derided in China-of peaceful coexistence with non-Communist countries...
...Hillier chose someone who can act but not sing, which took a certain amount of guts. Anne Chittenden is a perfect Pistache for the most part, but there are times, there are times. Miss Chittenden succeeds with "C'est Magnifique," but she has a little trouble with "Allez-Vous-En." And if all the acting ability in the world could carry off "I Love Paris," Miss Chittenden might have done it; some songs, though, simply have to be sung...
...hundred freshman in Holworthy, Thayer, and Stoughton Halls responded to the HSA goody man's cry of "Food!" with a tumult of their own last night. Yelling from windows and beaming two blinding spotlights on the salesman, the hungry Yardlings descended on the little red wagon en masse. Five of the eager eaters were relieved of their bursar's cards...