Word: li
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secretary of Peking's Municipal Communist Party Committee and a high-ranking member of both the national party's Central Committee and the Politburo. Then two months ago, Peng suddenly dropped from public view. Last week Peking radio finally broke its silence by announcing the appointment of Li Hsueh-feng, a 60-year-old party wheel horse, as Peking party boss, replacing Peng. Almost certainly, Peng would also be booted from the Central Committee, Politburo and his mayoralty...
...current Mao-knows-best school of Chinese journalism. The Moscow editors reprinted the article from a Chinese paper without comment, presumably because its title fully signaled its inanity: "Let Us Speak of the Philosophic Questions of Selling Watermelons in Big Cities." The author, Shanghai Fruit Store Manager Chou Hsin-li, explained how he had solved the problem of selling his melons before they rotted by referring to the writings of Mao Tse-tung for guidance...
Last week Eddy Arnold was on the road again. Only this time he rode up in a big Cadillac car to pick up $5,000 for an evening of pickin' and singin' at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. What was a li'l ole country boy doing in a big fancy place like that? "This is the fulfillment of a lifetime dream," drawled Eddy, all fancied up in a tuxedo and string tie. Backed by a 17-piece orchestra, he sang about humpback mules, lonesome hearts and them old cottonfields back home in a mellifluous baritone that...
...state mediators worked feverishly to end the strike, only one Boston paper-the nationally distributed, nonunionized Christian Science Monitor-continued to publish. To fill the news gap, the Harvard Crimson put out an extra four-page edition called the Boston Crimson. Cartoonist Al Capp read his own comic strip Li'l Abner over television for what he called the "culturally depraved people of Boston." Out-of-work newsmen appeared nightly on television, where they did not distinguish themselves. Reading the news in unmodulated voices with pained expressions on their faces, they stumbled over words while nervously fingering their cigars...
...bare-bosom boom; Manhattan's Blue Angel is defunct; and the Bon Soir, where cerebral comedians once gamboled, now has a noncomic policy. The comic strips, too, are in a generally deplorable state, two notable exceptions being Schulz's Peanuts and Al Capp's Li'l Abner...