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Speed Gets 'Em. Western specialists on Chinese affairs regard Communist statistics about their great leap forward as blatantly inflated. But instead of modifying them, the Communists multiplied them last week, making vast progress by statistical exhortation. Blandly, Chou En-lai advanced the claim that Red China's industrial and agricultural output increased by 65% in 1958-"a speed which has never been attained and cannot be attained under the capitalist system." No less fantastic were the production targets announced for this year: 18 million tons of steel (up 54% over 1958), 380 million tons of coal...
...Unofficially, it is held by the members of the Bolshoi Ballet, who last week bounded about the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House like a herd of nail-tailed wallabies. In the second week of their eight-week U.S. visit, the Russian dancers proved that they can leap higher, farther and more daringly than anything north of Australia. More important, in some dazzling performances of Swan Lake, they gave Manhattan audiences their first look at the Soviet classical ballet linked to the lavish, lush dance style that is the source of the company's fame...
Barely two years old, Ghana is one of those raw, resource-rich republics that yearn to leap into a modern economy. Last week, in a prime example of how private enterprise can help a developing country get set for such a bold jump, the Kaiser Industries Corp. circulated an ambitious (3 Ibs.) blueprint for building a major aluminum industry from Ghana's two abundant, untapped resources: red bauxite (aluminum ore) and cheap water power. So enthusiastic was Ghana that it started work immediately on the $600 million project. To Kaiser went the first contract-$3,000,000 for site...
...hates Americans, and the other by Christopher Isherwood, the British author (Prater Violet) who became one. The first is worth noting because of the surprisingly naive notions of its adult author, the second because it marks the jumping-off point in a talented young writer's abrupt leap to adulthood...
...search of open water; they had to quit after two miles. For five more months, they camped in the open, drifting, drifting. There was the sad rite of shooting the dogs, the terror of being dragged off the ice by vicious 1,100-Ib. sea leopards that could leap from the water and catch a running man. The expedition physicist scrawled in his tattered diary: "A bug on a single molecule of oxygen in a gale of wind would have about the same chance of predicting where he was likely to finish...