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...posting of Liu's confession seemed aimed at rousing public ire against him and strengthening Mao's hand. The next day, some 100,000 Red Guards poured into the Peking Workers' Athletic Hall for "A Rally for Thoroughly Criticizing Liu and Teng for Their Bourgeois Reactionary Lines." The youngsters boomed approval when speaker after speaker denounced Liu as "the Khrushchev of China," the "boss of the capitalist class," and warned that unless the Liu-Teng platforms were banished, "China itself might fade away." Clearly, the Guards were pressing for a showdown...
...unrest, turbulence and the tenuous control we have over our community and who yearn for the stability essential for a climate of productive learning." Vowing that he would enforce all campus rules "as long as I am in this position," Heyns-in a clear reference to the rising ire of the university regents over Berkeley's problems-warned that if the faculty did not support him, "no other chancellor will have as much independence as I have been given...
Housewives' Target. The boycotting housewives had little interest in the complexities of economics or electronics, but they concentrated much of their ire on a most visible target: supermarket games. The cost of such come-ons as Bonus Bingo, Pot-O-Gold and Let's Go to the Races amounts to approximately two-thirds of 1% of supermarket sales-half as much as the profit margin for the industry. The marketers rationalize that the games are an expensive promotional nuisance, but that Mrs. America is attracted by them despite her protests. Said Clarence G. Adamy, president of the National...
...Political Salesman." The President was determined not to ire voters by calling for a deflationary, across-the-board tax hike. Yet all through the second session, Johnson kept urging the Congress to keep his domestic programs at low price levels. To many members, his pleas smacked of election-year politicking, but when the final dollar total for programs passed over both sessions was added up, the 89th had actually allocated $3.3 billion less than the President had requested. For the two years, the 89th had appropriated just under $264 billion, an alltime record...
...Pull. They were always in the street. When Sukarno, ignoring the rising national clamor to ban the P.K.I., appointed several Communist sympathizers to his Cabinet in February, the students swarmed through Djakarta, rioting, slashing car tires, and even storming Sukarno's Merdeka Palace. A special target of their ire: wily Foreign Minister Subandrio, who was widely believed to be implicated in the Communist coup...