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...print, to the level-headed men charged with running China on a day-to-day basis-from factory managers to government bureaucrats to party officials like Liu and Teng-it looked like the Great Leap Forward of 1958 writ large in madness. By its do-it-yourself backyard-foundry mania, Mao's Great Leap had cost China several years of economic growth. The new revolution was to be far more encompassing, and it also threatened the technocrats' jobs. In a factory run by Mao-think, who needs a manager or even an engineer...
...James Beard, 63, a jolly giant who is 6 ft. 4 in. tall, according to his own estimate weighs "275 lbs. plus," and is today's king of gourmets. "My mania is my profession," he has said. It began in his childhood in Portland, Ore. "I was on all fours," he recalls. "I crawled into the vegetable bin, settled on a giant onion and ate it, skin and all." He has been an omnivorous eater ever since. Author of 14 cookbooks, including the bestselling paperback James Beard Cookbook (over 500,000 copies), he has probably done more...
...Cliffies, the Fourth House has become a nightmare. It is Mrs. Bunting's private mania. She wants girls returned to the Quad and living in shiny new dormitories, eating their three meals each day together and studying at the new Hilles Library nearby. She wants something most Radcliffe students don't want and have rejected at every possible turn. Seventy of 290 girls in the junior class want to live in apartments next year; in addition, 100 students applied for seven places in Wolbach Hall, the college's only apartment building. Personal feelings and preferences have been sacrificed...
...Georgics and chose to be buried there. "I pardon all," wrote Goethe, "who have lost their minds in Naples." Readers will pardon British Novelist Gwyn Griffin (A Significant Experience), who clearly lost his mind in Naples, and has here written a vast, violent novel that commandingly redeems his mania...
...Allow me to commend you for your fine article on "hockey mania" here in Houghton. The one-sidedness you spoke of is not confined to athletics. Tech's humanities department is a disgrace to the state of Michigan, just as much as our sportsmanship...