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...June 16 with a 21.8 clocking around a turn. That evening Tom Blodgett cleared 13 feet to take the pole vault, John de Kiewiet went over 6ft., 1 in. for a win in the high jump, and Pat Lilies finished first in the broad jump with a leap of 21 ft., 10 1/2 in. Lilies also was second in the pole
...week revealed a major upheaval in the government of Red China. In the greatest purge in four years, some 25 vice ministers and other senior officials were fired from their jobs. The causes of the shakeup, though not divulged by Peking, seemed clear: the humiliating failure of "the great leap forward," the enforced revision of phony production statistics (TIME, Sept. 7), popular antipathy to the vaunted rural communes, and growing strain between Red China's Communist Party and army...
Except for Peng Teh-huai, most of last week's casualties were second-level officials of the Foreign Office and other non-military departments. Their crime seems to have been "rightist opportunism," Communist jargon for those who argued that Red China's economic leap forward should be executed in slower and more orderly fashion. Though Peking is now grudgingly "tidying up the communes," discarding the wasteful backyard pig iron furnaces and giving its weary and befuddled population something of a breathing spell, it cannot admit failure. Neither can Red China's top leaders, still apparently unaffected...
...less than the U.S.S.R., tingled with the news of man's new scientific leap beyond the earth's atmosphere. "We wish," said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "to congratulate our fellow scientists...
...Leap Bomb bound Bomb frolic...