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...obscure truck driver until he was killed in an accident last August, but today Lei Feng is Red China's newest folk hero. Otherwise celebrated as the Forever Rustproof Screw, young Communist Lei Feng soared to posthumous fame when party officials conveniently discovered a 200,000-word diary that established him as the Confucius of collectivism. By contrast with the vast majority of China's peasants, whose reluctance to be herded into agricultural communes in 1958 has been largely responsible for the nation's persistent food shortages, Lei Feng actually waxed lyrical over such selfless, soulless "service...
With a marked improvement in food supplies this spring, the government has mounted a massive "Learn from Lei Feng" propaganda campaign, in an effort to halt what ideologists call the peasants' "spontaneous tendency toward capitalism." To the dismay of enterprising peasants, the government started cutting down on the minute private plots that they have been allowed to cultivate-and to use as a source of independent income. It seemed illogical, since it was the incentive that helped boost farm production in the first place. Nevertheless, in Kiangsi province, Radio Nanchang exhorts daily: "The collective must come before private plots...
...accompanied his re-elected colleague for the oath taking. The Senate erupted in applause when Arizona's Carl Hayden, 85, walked toward Vice President Lyndon Johnson to take the oath for the seventh time. There was more applause when Hawaii's Republican Hiram Fong draped a lei around the neck of his new colleague, Democrat Daniel Inouye...
Fenn's blitz is described by one teacher as "memorize, memorize, memorize. Listen and memorize, say and memorize, see and memorize."Even the most enthusiastic Thayer student realizes he will eventually sigh: "Wo hen lei [I am very tired...
...Cuba's press stood in chains fresh-forged by Fidel Castro. On Formosa, Newspaper Publisher Lei Chen was imprisoned for daring to be critically independent of Chiang Kaishek. Indonesia's President Sukarno commanded editors to swear allegiance to his regime ("Our publication is duty-bound to support guided democracy") or lose their licenses...