Word: li
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indeed, visually, the Congress was a showpiece of elusive party unity. Lined up on the rostrum before a giant picture of Chairman Mao were representatives of just about every one of Peking's factions-from the brash young radical Wang Hung-wen to relative conservatives like Vice Premier Li Hsiennien. But the actual results of the Congress, especially its choice of men for high positions, constituted a striking victory for the party's moderates. The major appointments...
...Died. Li Fu-chun, 75, Red China's master planner; in Peking. A veteran of the 6,000-mile Long March in 1934-35 with his childhood friend Mao Tse-tung, Li was named Minister of Heavy Industry after the Communists' 1949 victory. As chief of the State Planning Commission Li marshalled millions of peasants in the abortive industrial phase of the Great Leap Forward (1958-61). Both Mao and the recently hospitalized Chou En-lai attended their old comrade's funeral...
...plane and the Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) SR-71, which recently flew from New York to London in a record-breaking 1 hr. 55 min. As head of Lockheed's top-secret "Skunk Works" design shop, named after the foul-smelling factory in Li'l Abner, he also played a crucial role in developing spy satellites, electronic jamming and other cloak-and-dagger technologies...
divorce is too expensive. One Manhattan couple who could not afford a legal separation devised a cheap interim solution: a sheet suspended from the ceiling divides their apartment into his and hers li ving quarters...
...from 35% to 200%. The cost of sugar, which already was 21.60 per lb., tripled, and milkwent up 60%. Egg prices jumped 64%, bread 100%, meat 35%. Bus fares will rise 60%, and gasoline 64%, to $1.86 per gal. Fuel oil for industry zoomed up 117%. The standard of li ving of most middle-class Israelis, as measured by prices and income, overnight dropped about...