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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peking's exhortations were designed to rally fervor for China's latest economic venture. The project bears a striking resemblance to the Great Leap Forward of a decade ago, probably Mao Tse-tung's most ambitious scheme for China, and his most disastrous failure...
Fighting Lethargy. The communes are already hurting: they have to feed an estimated 20 million former urbanites -including millions of now undesirable Red Guards-whom the regime has recently sent into the boondocks for lengthy spells of physical labor. The peasants' response to Mao's latest brainstorm so far seems to have been remarkably unenthusiastic: troops had to be sent to a commune in Szechwan province to "overcome local lethargy...
...distinguish the new drive from the old Great Leap, however, is its flexibility. There has been some advance planning, and there appear to be no rigid output targets. In fact, Peking is admonishing local officials to "leave enough leeway." Though not too much, of course. The goal of the latest campaign, as Shanghai radio explained it recently, is "a fruit that can be picked by jumping and reaching up, not a fruit that can be taken by stretching out one's arm from a lying or sitting position...
...latest group has just returned, sunburned and weary, but enthusiastic about their accomplishments. Out in the bush, they applied their university skills to helping Indians and other backlanders who had never seen schools or doctors, much less census takers. The students told of treating one Indian who had amputated his own arm to avoid death by snake poison; others found a woman who had seen all of her 15 children die in infancy. In one remote village every inhabitant had leprosy...
Columbia's attempts to expand its athletic plant have been as disheartening as the Lions' results in team competition. The latest disaster in New York was the collapse of a bubble-type facility, similar to Harvard...