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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pepelasis saw the lawyer and offered him a demanding job in legal research. His assignment: to review the entire body of Greek legislation and unearth obsolete laws that are frustrating modern agricultural development. His salary: 7,000 drachmas ($233) a month. There were other offers, but this was the best. A day or two before TIME appeared Georgakakis actually had his first chance, thanks to Queen Mother Frederika, who had induced the Federation of Greek Industries to give him a job at 3,000 drachmas a month...
What Mao is attempting to do, in effect, is to replace the lingering ideal of harmony-using as much of it as he can for his own devices-with a modern, dynamic system of dialectic struggle. In trying to accomplish this, he must cope with every ancient phase of Chinese mentality, from its basic view of man to the minutest daily practices. The traditional Chinese view of the universe does not, as in the West, see a struggle between good and evil. The famous principles of Yin and Yang imply an alternate cosmic rhythm but not a struggle...
...Czarina's mad mystic Rasputin had riven Nicholas II's court. It was in this chill ambiance of discontent and deprivation that, 50 years ago this week, a revolution that began almost casually in Petrograd swept out the Czar and changed the course of Russian and modern history...
...long governed under the Emperors-in the words of one Western scholar, as "managers before their time"-finally lost their power to manage. Always opposed to specialization, in the belief that the really wise man can know and do everything, they were unable and unwilling to cope with modern knowledge. Suddenly, the old formulas no longer worked. Numbers, concepts, labels could not prevail against modern guns and machines. So long unshaken in its sense of superiority, China in the last years of the Manchu rule suffered military defeat and economic exploitation. A social order based on harmony with nature...
...publicized pride and joy, symbolizing its hopes for an industrialized future. Built with Chinese aid, equipment and technicians, its 48 large buildings were scattered over nearly three square miles. It employed 200 engineers, 2,000 technicians, and some 12,000 workers on three shifts. Destined to be the most modern metalworks in all of Southeast Asia when completed in 1969, Thai Nguyen was already turning out 200,000 tons of cast iron, supplying 80% of North Viet Nam's iron and steel alloy needs. It also had a vital role in Hanoi's war effort, fabricating "instant" bridges...