Word: mao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mao Tse-tung is reportedly near death after suffering a major heart attack. Polls show Ronald Reagan's lead in the California gubernatorial race declining. Reagan grows a beard, loses 40 pounds, and begins a series of ten-minute addresses at grand openings of Forest Lawn Cemetary branches. The Fellows of Harvard College and their wives attend a tea given by Mrs. Bunting at her new home. Soon after, Mrs. Helen Gurley Brown, author of "Sex and the Single Girl," is appointed first mistress of the tenth House, Ingraham House. Mrs. Brown is a non-academic. As nights become warmer...
...celebrate the end of Red China's month-long trade fair at Canton last week, a chorus of mountain girls sang of their yearning to be turned into wild geese so they could fly to Peking to be with Chairman Mao. Mao wishes that more Western businessmen would share that ardor, but his yearning has little more chance of fulfillment than that of the girls. Fewer countries sent delegations to the fair than in the past. While the range of goods that the Chinese showed off was wider, the quality showed only scant improvement. The Chinese-made suitcases were...
...until the economy gets going. "It's terribly important that China should not enter the modern world with the old idea of spheres of influence. That doesn't go anymore. Chinese power through the centuries has gone through this alteration of drawing in and then aggressively moving out. This 'Mao dynasty' seems to be one of the aggressive ones -- I mean, why take self-determination from the poor Tibetians?...I understand that 60% of the Vietnamese land is still owned by the old landlords. Really! Land reform ought to be put through at once. We have to give the peasant...
...third largest producer (after Canada's International Nickel and Falconbridge Nickel) of a scarce, strategically important metal. While the two governments are squabbling over the company's activities, the protagonists range far beyond the Quai d'Orsay and Foggy Bottom. They include Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung, former French Premier Rene Mayer and those storied bankers, the Rothschilds...
...Herbert Blau is credited with translating the German; he has assuredly embalmed the English. Thanks to Blau, Robespierre has been given an outward resemblance to Barry Goldwater. This is a political subtlety fully worthy of the mentality that-in a since-deleted program note-linked Lyndon B. Johnson and Mao Tse-tung as fellow tyrants. Thanks to Blau, too, the direction resembles a wind machine blowing actors around like autumn leaves...