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What makes China so inscrutable these days is not the mystery of events so much as their exaggeration. Rhetoric and hyperbole are built into Chinese grammar, and the Chinese by nature are prone to overstatement. None practice verbal inflation with greater verve than the South Chinese, whose largest city, Canton, has for the past two months been the main arena of struggle between those promoting Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and those opposing it. Cantonese wall posters and the tales of travelers coming out to nearby Hong Kong have painted a lurid portrait of a city racked...
Looking forward to his 83rd birth day next month - and backward on a 65-year career in merchandising - the chairman of the U.S.'s largest depart ment store group announced last week that he was relinquishing his title. Fred Lazarus Jr. turned full command over to Son Ralph, 53, and will keep only the honorary assignment of executive committee chairman of Federated Department Stores Inc. The man succeed ing Ralph as president of the Cincinnati-based organization is J. Paul Sticht, 49, a onetimeCampbell Soup Co. executive who joined Federated in 1960 and has been serving as a vice...
...largest, most exciting, and most frequently criticized of local agencies is that amalgam of student-run enterprises, the Harvard Student Agencies...
Another University rule, that the Dean's office must have a complete list of officers and members, may be re-evaluated this year. Last summer, the American Council of Education, one of the nation's largest and most respected organizations of university leaders, urged colleges and universities to stop keeping lists of students participating in undergraduate political organizations. The Council's new policy was a direct challenge to the House Committee on Un-American Affairs, which in the 1966 summer subpeonaed membership lists of leftwing student political groups from Stanford, Michigan, and Berkeley...
...these organizations, which are Harvards largest, most prestigious, and most influential, important decisions are made by one person, or a very few people. And nine times out of ten, these people in power joined the organization during their freshman year...