Word: mao
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Glenn's current age when Glenn was born would himself have been 17 years old when the Civil War began. Then too, there are the people who saw Glenn's first flight who either will or won't be here for the second. Khrushchev, Kennedy, Johnson, Mao Zedong--all towering figures in 1962, all dust now. Castro--communism's beachhead in the West then, old and isolated now. Queen Elizabeth--young and remote monarch then, old and remote monarch...
Sadly, many family documents disappeared during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, and it had long been believed that the records of Europe's Jews were destroyed during the Holocaust. That myth has been shattered, says Estelle Guzik, director of the New York Jewish Genealogical Society, adding that "a significant number of records remain, and people are uncovering them daily." After talking to relatives and tracking down as much about her family as she could in the U.S., Guzik traveled to Poland, and, against all odds, found in the small village of Korczyn the 1884 tombstone of her great-great-grandfather...
...Saturday-night specials? "The black and Hispanic women who clean office buildings until 3 a.m. and then walk home--of course, they want a handgun in their purse." Limit purchases to one gun a month? "It's the camel's nose in the tent. Look at Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Idi Amin--every one of these monsters, on seizing power, their first act was to confiscate all firearms in private hands." Sarah Brady, head of the lobby Handgun Control Inc., doubts that Heston will moderate the N.R.A. "A pretty face but the same old words," she says...
...Chongqing, bringing economic development in their wake. "We are only half developed compared with the Mississippi, where you have dams that make the water flatter and easier for shipping," he says. Like most Chinese today, he is fascinated by the wealth of the U.S. and by its political system. "Mao started the Cultural Revolution on his own. Even if you want to start a war in the U.S., the President has to go through Congress first," he says admiringly. As he starts talking about China's drive to catch up with the U.S., the ferry draws alongside a large, modern...
...Beijing the first law of summitry is to make sure the world leader on the other side of the table understands that he is the supplicant, especially if that is not the case. When Richard Nixon made his famous journey to meet Mao Zedong in 1972, China was in a terribly weakened condition and most vulnerable to the military might of the Soviet Union. But Nixon, with Henry Kissinger leading the way, went hat in hand, grateful for just an audience with one of the great tyrants of the 20th century...