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Meanwhile, big things were happening in the field events. Jim Doty finished a creditable second to Army's Ed Bagdonas in the hammer, and John deKiewiet surprised the favored Cadet high jumpers by winning the event with a 6 ft., 1 1/2 in. leap. Hank Abbot and Steve Cohen took second and third in the shot, and Stan Doten and John Bronstein added four points in the discus...
...reassessment began last December when moonfaced Chairman Mao Tse-tung met with the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in the bustling Yangtze River industrial complex of Wuhan. Although party propagandists were still extolling the miracles of production that had been achieved during Red China's "great leap forward" in 1958, the harsh fact before Mao and his colleagues was that the great leap forward had actually brought China close to economic chaos. By concentrating the nation's economic resources on a series of "shock programs" -above all, the great campaign to produce pig iron and steel...
Nirvana Postponed. China's economy continues to suffer from the dislocations created by the great leap forward. The People's Daily recently acknowledged that production of coal, iron and steel is "still unable to meet the demands." Accordingly, in the key provinces of Yunnan and Hupeh, Mao's government early last month reintroduced work norms and extra pay for "overfulfillment of the quota"-devices that had been abandoned in the heady, doctrinaire days of the great leap. This doubtless shocked the ideological zealots who only a few months ago were boasting that the slavery of the people...
...Liles also came up with a very good performance, placing third in the broad jump with a leap of 22 ft., 5 in., his best so far this year. In addition, Liles ran the 300-yard event...
...escape sure death as witnesses to the slaughter, Curtis and Lemmon leap into garter belts and padded bras, join an all-female orchestra heading for Florida. The band's singer: Actress Monroe. For the rest of the movie, Curtis and Lemmon are rarely out of their dresses...