Word: followers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...split is emerging in the Student Assembly between representatives who want the assembly to take an immediate stand on issues relating to South Africa and representatives who want the assembly to follow a cautious policy toward the issues...
...several months, wall posters in China's capital have been attacking Peking Mayor Wu Teh-most significantly as the RAT'S TAIL OF THE GANG OF FOUR. That menacing epithet suggested that the mayor would soon follow Chiang Ch'ing, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's widow, and her radical Gang of Four into political disgrace. Last week the writing on the wall was confirmed when Wu, 68, was replaced by Lin Hu-chia, the mayor of Tientsin. Although Wu will retain his seat in the 23-man ruling Politburo, Chinese officials said that he will...
...1930s and now the premier hostelry for Western visitors, is creaky and listless, but it can still mount a banquet worthy of an Emperor. At a school hi Shanghai's Yangpu district, 34 exquisite young voices rehearse a song that turns out to be pure Maozart: We Follow Our Chairman. In a nearby room at the Children's Palace, a finely tuned orchestra of eleven-year-olds, playing traditional Chinese fiddles, flutes, dulcimers, string drums and mandolins, bursts out with My Old Kentucky Home. More than 1,000 children a day study the arts and sciences at this...
...designers opted for a cheaper rectangular Y OF ARIZONA building that rotates with the telescope. A small moat keeps out dust and stray snakes, scorpions and rats. Yet MMT'S most unusual feature is its internal laser tracking system. It enables all six telescopes to follow the same object across the skies with an accuracy of . 1 second of arc, I roughly equivalent to keeping a quarter in the cross hairs of six separate gun sights at a distance of about 25 km (15 miles...
...sound quality will strike fans of the vinyl Bowie as poor; his lushly-produced effects get stripped down to what a seven-man band can handle on stage. Bowie's vocal machinations, so clever and startling out of the studio, lose some of their sparkle when forced to follow one another in sequence. The side has a nightclub feel, like a good band at Jack's going through some of Bowie's old hits. Bowie doesn't even take a beat between each song, a la Ramones: keep those tunes rolling and drinks flowing...