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...recent Communist Party meeting in Peking, an ambitious delegate who began to recite the once-obligatory eulogies to "the great agricultural leap" was harshly reminded by one of his colleagues that, after all, China's Communists were "not like the legendary monkey god, Sun Wun Kung, who could pull out one of his hairs and with a breath create an army." More bluntly yet, the Peking People's Daily unprecedentedly admitted the possibility of famine "in certain areas of the country." In face of the hunger that stalks mainland China for the third straight year, even Red China...
There was one curious literary note that Mao Tun failed to mention. In 1958, the year of the great economic leap, the Writers and Artists Union announced plans for a literary leap as well. Mao Tun, like others, was assigned his quota: one long novel, two of medium length. As everybody in the audience knew, Mao Tun has produced no novel since. In fact, the pen of China's most important living novelist has been curiously still ever since Communism took over...
Died. Oksana Stepanovna Kasenkina, 63, Russian schoolteacher in the Soviet consulate in Manhattan, who defected in 1948 by jumping from a third-floor window, became a U.S. citizen in 1957 and wrote Leap to Freedom, the story of her life under Russian repression and of the disappearance of her husband in the 1937 purges; of heart disease; in Miami, where she had lived incognita the past year in a hotel for the elderly. Her leap followed a previous escape to the New York farm of the anti-Communist Tolstoy Foundation, from which she was kidnaped by the then Soviet consul...
...leap of modern history, A.D. 1960 will break records in the building of new nations. Last week four proud nations of empire-Britain, France, Italy and Belgium-benevolently watched old colonies become independent new countries...
...merchandise, merchan dise for blood," he told a Jewish leader. "You can make your choice from Hungary, Poland, Austria, from Auschwitz or Theresienstadt, from wherever you like. Potent males? Fertile women? Old people? Children?" At the Nuremberg trials, a witness reported Eichmann's defiant boast: "I will leap into my grave laughing because the feeling that I have 5,000,000 human beings on my conscience is for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction...