Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Guards have failed so far to make good their boast to export the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to the rest of the world. But some signs of Mao Tse-tung's new way of doing things have cropped up in Red China's embassies abroad. Soon after he unleashed his teen-age zealots in Peking, Mao dispatched an order to his diplomats: act in a proletarian way, do your own dishes, tend your own garden, wear simple clothing, be frugal...
Obeying orders, Chinese diplomats have put aside Western suits for Mao-type tunics. The wife of the ambassador to Morocco has just returned from Peking with the new look for diplomats' wives - short bobbed hair and pantaloons. Embassy libraries have been stripped of non-Mao books. The Red Chinese embassy in Bern has put away such art treasures as the horse statuette from the Tang period, which once was proudly shown to Swiss visitors as a masterpiece of Chinese culture. In the trade exposition in Algiers, guests now are confronted with patriotic placards: "Long live the Great Proletarian Cultural...
...Swim. Mao's orders have made the Chinese diplomats more standoffish than ever. When the Cultural Revolution was announced, China's new ambassador to Algeria, Tseng Tao, had just begun to relish swimming at Algiers' spacious El-Kettani Club, a meeting place for the country's elite. Now he is seldom seen outside his for bidding embassy. Actually, Peking's emissaries are so isolated that they have little to do. But there was a flurry of activity in the Moscow embassy last week. In the latest round in the Sino-Soviet controversy, the Kremlin announced...
...Mao's works. As part of the celebration, Peking released a color film of China's three nuclear explosions. The Chinese achievement, said the narrator, would "smash the nuclear blackmail" of the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. The credit for the blasts went, of course, to Mao, whose thought "armed" the Chinese nuclear scientists...
Auto Pretension. If Peking could be believed, Mao's thought could, in fact, do just about anything-even provide the inspiration for the design of a new automobile. According to a Peking report, six "pacesetters" in an auto factory in Changchum, 350 miles northeast of Peking, testified that they "started from scratch" to produce a new car, with Mao's thought as the "guiding principle." What they aspired to, they proudly proclaimed, "was proletarian art, not an imitation of foreign models...