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...milleniums of history behind them, were ever truly "blank." Yet in the 25 years since Mao and his 2 million-member Communist Party swept to power after a 22-year civil war, he has come a long way toward creating a new China. Despite the convulsions of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, China has transformed itself more radically and more quickly than any other country in history. From what many Westerners saw as a devastated, underdeveloped satellite of the Soviet Union, China has remade itself into a largely self-sufficient, growing and fiercely independent world power...
...jumping record. All of which was better than he did in Dallas last February, when he cleared only eleven trucks and broke his back. Despite his $65,000 fee, Knievel's Toronto show was clearly only a tune-up for the big one: his planned 4,871-ft. leap across Idaho's Snake River Canyon on Sept. 8 in a steam-powered Sky Cycle. While New York Congressman John Murphy sought legislation to ban coverage of Knievel's ultimate caper over network TV, "where it can be viewed by our children," good old Evel...
...leap from California to Currier House, might not phase Evil Knievel's desires, but it devastated me. I was overwhelmed. The transition from barefeet and beaches to Top-Siders and cobblestones was easy enough to deal with. But it was the personal confrontation with Harvard people who were both mystified and threatened by my homestate that jarred my puerile sensibilities about Harvard into Step 1 of the adaptation process. I learned to ignore...
...zookeepers and other city workers ended when the city and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees reached agreement on a new contract that made a mockery of Mayor William D. Schaefer's vow to hold pay increases to 6%. Garbage men's salaries will leap 20%%, from $3.42 an hour to $4.12, by July 1975, while policemen's will soar 22%, to a maximum of $ 13,500 a year...
...start of his eight-day leap-frog tour from Washington to Brussels to Moscow, Nixon was still suffering from phlebitis, an inflammation of a vein that he had first noticed in his left leg when he began his Middle East tour two weeks earlier. Though the pain had disappeared-Press Secretary Ron Ziegler said that Nixon likened it to that of a deep bruise-the President nonetheless had to elevate the leg on his plane and in the privacy of his quarters on the ground. While phlebitis can be dangerous, even fatal if the clot moves to the lungs...