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...severe setback. The man who fancies himself the greatest living Communist theoretician was retreating from his boast of achieving true Communism ("To each according to his need") ahead of Russia, which had a 30-year head start and is still far from achieving it. Retreating from its great leap forward, the Central Party's resolution used the words gradual and gradually in times in 40 pages. The document was peppered with dilatory phrases: "It takes time." "We should not be in a hurry." "We should wait a bit." "There is yet insufficient experience." "Socialism must continue for a long...
...varsity's only record performance of the evening came in the hurdle event, when Joel Landau established new meet and Briggs Cage marks with a 5.2 sec. effort. High jumper Kelvin Kean missed equaling the meet standard in his event with a 6 ft., 3 in leap. The varsity also fared well in other field events, with Pat Liles winning the broad jump...
...accelerate the building of socialism and to realize mankind's noblest ideal-Communism-in our generation and by our own hands." To millions of hand-blistered Chinese students, the last phrase must ring with ironic accuracy. For much of the impetus in China's "Year of the Leap" (TIME, Dec. 1) has come from daily sessions of mind and muscle-numbing physical labor by the nation's students, who work before and after classes and often during class hours as well...
...lanky, well-muscled Negro made a high, spread-eagle leap, grabbed the ball and cleared the University of Cincinnati backboard. Whirling in the air before he hit the floor, he sped downcourt, dribbled expertly past three New York University defenders, plowed in and sank a difficult lay-up shot. Moments later, with the ball in his hands once again, he started to turn for a hook shot. Hit hard by an N.Y.U. player, he fell heavily to the court, but on the way down he somehow managed to arch the ball toward the basket with a flick of his powerful...
...ritual, Akihito's betrothal was hailed in Japan as the imperial family's greatest leap toward democracy since Hirohito threw off the myth of imperial divinity in 1946. Not only was the engagement "a triumph of youth and love." said Foreign Minister Aiichiro Fujiyama, it had "shattered court conventions." "The prince," said the Japan Times, "has set a seal on the democratization of Japan." For Akihito. who has long rebelled against living behind a "chrysanthemum curtain," there will be other seals to set. When he was only three, he was, as tradition decreed, taken away from his parents...