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Beneath these demands lay a clash between two different personality styles. P'eng, to some extent, represented the "experts," those who thought the most valuable men to China were the trained and ingenious technicians. Mao Tse-tung, who loathed the "expert" ideal, dismissed P'eng and replaced him with Lin. Mao's ideal man was the "red," a man of lower class background who believed, like Mao, that will power and unquestioned loyalty to socialism and to China would together win the world...
Behind the purely religious battle lay factors less obvious but no less persuasive. Goan Catholics were fighting to hold on to the preferential status accorded them by the Portuguese and continued by the Indian government after "union." Many Goan Hindus, on the other hand, have relatives in Maharashtra, and most speak a dialect of the Marathi language. But the determining question was whether Goa should cease to exist. In exchange for the territory's own legislature, established three years ago by New Delhi, all the promerger forces could offer were four seats in the Maharashtra state assembly, a pitiful...
Last week McCormick Place lay in a wild ruin of twisted steel, tumbled concrete and smoking ashes. It was the victim of a blaze that, in total money terms, rivaled the fire...
Idealistic Aide. William C. Bullitt, now 75, at the end of World War I was an idealistic young State Department aide whose distinguished diplomatic career as Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Soviet Russia and France still lay in the future. He served briefly on Wilson's peace commission in Paris but was aghast at what he considered the President's capitulation to the vengeful demands of Germany's European conquerors. Moreover, Bullitt had extracted from Lenin what he took to be a promise to limit the spread of Bolshevism substantially to Moscow and its environs. When...
...technical "errors." One senses in his Walt Whitman-like momentum and in the obvious abundance of his love the potential power to create a new propriety, to make today's errors tomorrow's principles. Specifically, Forman often neglects to "place" his scenes properly in space. It is hard to lay down principles by which proper placement can be achieved, but by negative example, the color cartoon often violates such principles deliberately, for humorous effect. Thus, when Tom or Jerry gets flattened by a train steaming out of a direction we never knew existed, our laughter is more complicated than that...