Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mao Tse-tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has produced the greatest proletarian traffic jam in history. From Tibet to Tsingtao, the roads, rails and airlines of Red China are jammed with Chinese on the move. Most are Red Guards heading to and from Peking to spread the word of the leader's glory. Their road map-passed out on trains, sung on airliners-is a cheap (about 25?), red, plastic-bound copy of Mao's Thought. So massive is the movement that the government has begun to drop a hint to the faithful...
Last week the New China News Agency was trumpeting the achievements of 15 young students from the Dairen Mercantile Academy in Manchuria who decided to do just that. They had to see Mao, but the distance from Dairen to Peking is 600 miles. "They recalled scenes of the Red army on the Long March and hit upon an idea: Let's travel to Peking by foot." On Aug. 25, they set out, "holding high the Red-covered quotations of Chairman Mao, and with revolutionary vigor vowed: 'To make revolution, we must take the most arduous road!' " During...
Removing the Mire. Acclaimed by the populace, they encouraged one another at river crossings by recalling Mao's recent speedy swim in the Yangtze and reciting his heroic verse: "I care not that the wind blows and the waves beat; it is better than idly strolling in a courtyard...
Need for a Bang. The true value of the Chinese test last week was psychological and political. It came when the U.S. and its Asian allies were meeting in Manila. At the same time, Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution needed a bang, and the announcement of the missile-borne nuclear test filled that need. The test showed that Chinese science is "advancing at even greater speed under the brilliant illumination of Mao Tse-tung's thought," crowed Peking's characteristically pompous communiqu...
...best interests of the U.S." So he remained at Caltech until 1955. Allowed at last to leave, he returned to the Chinese mainland and went right to work. Soon he was a full-fledged member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and was posing for pictures at Mao's side. After a millennium of waiting, the Chinese "fire arrow" clearly had reached maturity...