Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Laos. Under new Premier Phoui Sananikone this small, primitive nation has made a significant leap forward. Badgered by a border quarrel with Communist North Viet Nam and by a sizable native band of Reds, Phoui is nevertheless courageous enough to stand up and be counted as an ally of the West. But the Laotian economy is staggering, and four years of U.S. aid served mostly to line politicians' pockets until Phoui took over. For the first time Laos deserves, as well as needs, substantial U.S. help...
...Khrushchev's theorizing was not present, for reasons unexplained, but the stocky shadow of Mao Tse-tung nevertheless leaned over the proceedings. Perhaps Red China's Mao knew that his ideas would not prevail. Breaking the long official Soviet silence on Red China's "big leap" to create communes throughout the countryside in 1958, Khrushchev declared that Communism-the ultimate, classless form of human society described by Marx, Engels and Lenin ("To each according to his need")-cannot be achieved without first building socialism ("To each according to his work...
...Society cannot leap into Communism from capitalism without going through a socialist stage of development," said Khrushchev. The transition "in which socialism develops into Communism is a regular historical process that cannot be arbitrarily violated or avoided." And instead of getting there first, as Mao had hinted China would, "Socialist countries, correctly using the opportunity of cooperation and mutual aid," said Khrushchev, "will more or less simultaneously reach the highest phase of Communist society." This would take "many years"; to try to leap there prematurely "would lead to the dissipation of accumulated means," necessary for expanding production...
...three-story loudspeakers located about the rim of the planetarium, plus four bass speakers around the room. By turning a crank he can produce rings of sound racing smoothly about the dome's circumference. He can also make his sound tinkle and drip from side to side or leap in front of or behind an audience. Jacobs either uses taped works by other experimental electronics composers or pastes up his own random sounds to suit his taste...
...rejoicing over this "great leap forward" could hardly be heard last week in Red China's cities. Reason: city dwellers had just been told that, despite the talk of a record yield, their grain rations had been cut. A "very heavy worker" in Peking, who used to get the maximum of 20.6 lbs. of wheat flour a month, will now get only twelve. Similar cuts hit the smaller rations of white-collar workers, shopkeepers and children...