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...Great Leap Forward: "One can't be rash. There must be a step-by-step process. In eating meat, one can only consume one piece at a time. One can never hope to become a fatso at one stroke." After a pause, Mao continued: "The commander in chief [Marshal Chu Teh] and I didn't get fat in a single...
Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito was never farther from the Moscow line than when he told a group of film makers: "The world might be far better off if it were left to the artists instead of to the politicians." Those film makers had been making The Battle of Neretva, all about one of Tito's greatest triumphs in his guerrilla war with the Nazis. Produced with the President's personal advice and encouragement, the spectacle cost millions and runs for more than four hours. Last week Tito threw a party to celebrate the premiere, and his guest...
...they had stepped in to prevent the militants from turning the demonstration the Mobe had so carefully organized into a scene of senseless, polarizing violence. A young Mobe marshal moved down the sidewalk pleading with the crowd through his megaphone, "This is not an official Mobe demonstration. Will all those not connected with this demonstration please leave this area...
...militants continued to provoke the police, it became clear that the marshals had done all they could. A leader from the Mobe marshals conferred with the captain of the police. They looked out on the crowd. The Mobe marshal sadly shook his head...
...Then a marshal lit my candle, and my new project was to keep it going until I said goodbye to Tinsley. I didn't succeed despite constant practice at those Christmas candlelight services. My candle burned faster than anyone else's, and it became clear that I would be lucky if the candle lasted the length of the walk...