Word: lost
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of Maoist puritanism and idealism, others because they feel that the Chairman has not gone far enough in his efforts to regenerate the revolution. Indeed, throughout the population, the Cultural Revolution seriously undermined respect for authority. Abroad, China's position is not much better. Peking has lost much face in Asia and Africa. Once the Third World carefully watched the competition between India and China. India still has trouble aplenty, but economic planners no longer seriously consider the "Chinese model." Albania is China's only real friend, and Peking has but a few close acquaintances-Pakistan, Rumania...
...away in the foreseeable future. The country will have a population of 1 billion by 1980, yet still lacks the solid industrial base that is a must for any modern power. Somehow, Peking will have to reassert the central government's authority over the vast hinterlands-something it lost during the Cultural Revolution. At the same time it will have to determine whether it should soften its standoffish attitude toward the rest of the world. Eventually it will no doubt have to consider toning down its hostility toward the U.S., which has moved from a romantic and sometimes patronizing...
...long-awaited heavyweight fight between Ex-Champion Muhammad All and Joe Frazier, who is recognized as the champ by six states, nearly came off last week on a Philadelphia street. After quarreling with Frazier on a local TV talk show, ALI (who lost his title after refusing induction into the military) lay in wait outside the studio. When Frazier emerged, Ali hit him in the shoulder with a long, looping right. Before followers could restrain both fighters, Ali threw another punch that fell short. "If Clay gets a license to fight, we'll fight him," Frazier's manager...
Winthrop? he asked. One with a motor would be better, Lester allowed. The answer was not lost on Nelson, who bought a pea-green motorbike and sent it to the statehouse in Atlanta. Put-putting happily around his office, Maddox offered his newest benefactor a free ride any time he comes south...
...Coed Revalee Maase puts it: "When I was in high school, I smoked a lot of grass. Everybody did. But up here I've lost the need-I'm on the best high I've ever had, just working with these kids. It's so intensive, we've been getting to know each other so well that we lose all sense of time...