Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farms. The experiment set the nation back economically a full decade; yet last week the Red Chinese seemed to be gathering strength for another leap. The length and direction of the stride were far from clear in the murky prose pouring out of Peking. What was clear was that Mao Tse-tung was rallying Red China's 700 million people for another supreme effort of some sort, and behind it all was the full force of Peking's 2,500,000-man army...
Everyone a Soldier. For months, Peking-watchers have been expecting a drastic social upheaval. Since November, China has writhed under a purge of "antiparty monsters" that has swept away many high-ranking party officials, journalists and artists. Peking propagandists have been praising Mao to the skies, whipping up much the same frenzied atmosphere as that preceding the 1958 leap. Mao himself added a mysterious element by disappearing from public view for six months and reappearing only...
Last week an editorial in Peking's People's Daily explained that Mao had withdrawn from public view to "provide the scientific answer to the question of how to prevent the restoration of capitalism." The answer: "Turn everyone into a soldier." People's Daily exhorted the army "to turn China's factories, rural communities, schools, trading undertakings, service trades, and party and government organizations into great and truly revolutionary schools like the liberation army itself." How the army would go about providing the schools has not yet been spelled out. Perhaps the army, with its highly...
...rest of Red China, it was quite an inspiration. In all units of the Chinese armed forces, shouts of "Long live Chairman Mao" rose from the ranks. One platoon leader, Liu Hsin-fa, breathlessly declared to his unit, "I saw Chairman Mao swimming. He is in excellent health!" With the typical enthusiasm of the enlisted man about such tidings, his buddies chorused, "We feel as happy as you do." Not to be outdone by the military, workers at the Harbin locomotive and rolling stock plant overfulfilled their quotas five to twelve hours ahead of schedule at the news...
Japanese writers who saw him at a reception before the swim agreed that Mao indeed seemed in excellent health. But they complained that their boats were located too far back to see him actually in the water. It was a great loss since, if he really did the nine miles in 65 minutes, it would be approximately four times as fast as the world's best-known ten-mile swimming record. So impressed was the president of the World Professional Marathon Swimming Federation that he invited Mao to enter two long-distance races that his association will sponsor this...