Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mao Tse-tung has not been seen in public since last Nov. 26 when he waved a fragile goodbye to a delegation of visiting Cambodian military officers. Last week Sinologists were speculating that Mao was seriously...
...Mao is ailing and overweight, smokes two packs of cigarettes a day, and suffers either from Parkinson's disease or the symptomatically similar aftereffects of a cerebral hemorrhage. He is also believed to have a liver ailment...
...strategy bears more than a passing resemblance to Mao Tse-tung's guerrilla primer, which is natural, since the game was invented by the Chinese.* As subsequently developed by the Japanese, Go is surrounded by an elaborate code of courtesy. "Sit up straight-do not lounge over the board," goes one stern directive. "Do not blow smoke in your opponent's face," goes another. Players must politely warn opponents of impending capture by saying "Atari," to which the frequent reply is "Komatta na!"-meaning "Oh, what a mess...
Meanwhile, Mao Tse-tung and the Chinese Communists, who caustically refused to attend the Moscow Congress, were busy with other things. Not only did a Chinese delegation gather huzzas in Pakistan, but Peking last week celebrated the 95th anniversary of the Paris Commune. The ceremony came replete with a 400-item exhibition including a Communard sword, a badge reading "Republique des Communes," and a Red Flag editorial that lambasted Russia for "embarking on the path of restoring capitalism...
...there is some unrest in thought among a part of our comrades. The soldier Chang Lichen said: "At present, what the peasants eat in the villages is even worse than what dogs ate in the past. At that time dogs ate chaff and grain." Commune members ask: "Is Chairman Mao going to allow us to starve to death?" The soldier Liu Ho-shan said: "Our country has no definite plans at all. Why are we unable to buy things...