Word: gobi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...throw China back into an age of simplicity and Spartan evangelical purity that it had never really known. If China's young no longer needed education, neither did any working adult need expertise: for both, the contemplation of Mao's teachings was enough. Explorers lost in the Gobi Desert threw away their compasses and were led out by Mao-think. A North China girl spinner started out tending 100 spindles at a time but, after studying Mao's works, was soon handling 1,600 with ease. Top-quality steel was forthcoming from an out-of-date converter...
...Chinese). Sturdy Mongol girls tend up-to-date British machinery in a large textile mill, and the sons of nomad horsemen study physics at the state university. Russia and its European satellites have poured nearly $3 billion into Outer Mongolia. Hungarian technicians operate 300 oil wells in the Gobi desert, and the crude oil is trucked to a Soviet-built refinery at Sain Shanda. At the town of Sukhe Bator is a paper mill and a factory that turns out prefabricated houses. The Russian metallurgical plant at Darkhan produces 300,000 tons of steel per year. Soviet geologists claim...
...latest product of the Teilhard industry. Circumspectly edited by his cousin, Claude Aragonnes. Father Teilhard's Letters from a Traveller (Harper; $4) contains a smattering of the vast correspondence he carried on with friends and relatives-often from archaeological campsites in such spots as the Gobi desert. Unlike his metaphysical masterwork The Phenomenon of Man (TIME, Dec. 14. 1959) or his mystical treatise on The Divine Milieu (TIME, Feb. ID. 1961), Teilhard's letters are largely free of neologisms, contain wise and witty comments on a world he clearly loved, and clearly saw sub specie aeternitatis. A sampling...
...this outside aid has made striking changes in Mongolia. The sweeping mile-high plateau between the snowy Altai mountains and the Gobi desert is now gashed with gang-plowed collective fields, which have yielded so well that last year Mongolia was able to export grain. The trans-Mongolian railroad's locomotives spew sparks among the golden buttercups and tiny scarlet lilies of some of the world's finest pasture land, where for centuries the sturdy Mongolian ponies had been the fastest means of transportation. A quarter of the country's million-odd inhabitants have deserted their hide...
Died. Roy Chapman Andrews, 76, dashing explorer, naturalist, author (Meet Your Ancestors), who sailed the seven seas in search of whales, led a series of expeditions (from 1916 to 1932) into uncharted areas of Asia, came back from the Gobi Desert with 70 million-year-old dinosaur eggs and fossils from the world's biggest land mammal (the baluchitherium), became director of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History; of a heart attack; in Carmel, Calif...