Word: ma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After they checked in at the lodge and had lunch, the three friends went out for a hike. Janitor Emil Boehn was carrying wood into the lodge as they left. "It's a beautiful afternoon for a hike," said one of the women. "Yes, ma'am," replied Boehn. The women walked to a slippery, narrow canyon trail, wound their way past ravines with 20-ft. drops, came to the dead end of a canyon whose walls rise 80 ft. on three sides, framing a frozen waterfall. They were about a mile from the lodge...
Paris and NATO's General Lauris Norstad that they were thinking of asking Spain for military installations of unspecified type. (Strauss apparently did not bother to mention that he had already opened discussion of the matter with Spanish Foreign Minister Fernando María Castiella y Maíz two months earlier, and he never did get around to telling the other eleven NATO members.) From all three allies and from Norstad came the same advice: Strauss should forget about Spain and try to get the bases he needed from NATO nations. Undeterred, Strauss sent off a military mission...
...Ma did not join the party, but was made president of Red China's biggest university. He boned up on Russian, added a bit of Lenin to make "my new system of thinking," and began publishing treatises on population and agriculture. For boldly arguing that agricultural output should be boosted before tackling industrialization, Ma came under heavy orthodox attack, only to be handsomely vindicated when Mao Tse-tung himself ordered the economic revolution of the communes 18 months ago. Now he complains that the critics dragged out against him are "new names" unworthy of his stature, and adds defiantly...
...latest essay, Economist Ma was allowed to attack one of the most sacred of official Peking views-that an ever-increasing population is a source of Chinese strength. If China is to advance at the pace its leaders have set, argued Ma, it must raise the quality of its population -i.e., the productivity of its labor force -and control its quantity. For example. he demanded, how can China think that 20,000 men can do the work of one Soviet electronic computer? If China's population explosion is not contained, he went on, "sooner or later the peasants will...
...does Ma get away with it? Some say his age saves him; others speak of a powerful friend. A mandarin trained before World War I at Yale and Columbia (he wrote a thesis on New York City municipal finances), Ma returned to China around 1918 to teach, and to advise Chiang Kai-shek from time to time on economic matters. Always a maverick, he was arrested by the Nationalists during World War II as one of the Chiang government's most vehement Kuomintang critics. Ma later acknowledged that Communist Liaison Officer Chou En-lai "did everything in his power...