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...complaining about such matters as the size of bicycles ("I am 4 ft. 10 in. tall, and I've been waiting for a suitably sized bicycle for years"), and leaky fountain pens exported to Russia ("The consequences could be bad''). Occasionally, someone will attack a minor partyman. Item: an 'official named Kuo Pei-cheng was accused of keeping a 14-year-old girl up until midnight "so that he could help her with her own private five-year plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Voice of Red China | 6/23/1958 | See Source »

...last week, as the scandal still simmered, it was announced that Hendrickson will be appointed to the federal bench (he turned down the ambassadorship to New Zealand). Loyal Partyman Hendrickson smiled broadly for the photographers, as well he might. Not many Republican politicians in New Jersey know exactly where they will stand after November, but Bob Hendrickson does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He Who Smiles Last | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

...justice." Soon afterward Deputy Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov, the only Red army marshal never invited by the party leaders to lead the Red army parade, was asked for a toast. He announced that he would go along with Bohlen's toast. "What's the matter, Zhukov?" taunted Partyman Mikoyan, "can't you think up a toast of your own?" The marshal glared at Policeman Beria's friend. "I repeat," he said, "I wish to support the toast to justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mud in Your Eye | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Died. Franz Xavier Schwarz, 72, pudgy bald treasurer of the Nazi Party from its 1925 beer-hall days to the finish; in a Regensburg, Germany, internment camp. Never famous himself, faithful Partyman Schwarz had one of the best-known mailboxes in Europe: Munich #33-where Nazis sent their party dues and contributions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...Their most fiery leader was goat-bearded Kung Keng, 73, who discourses mystically and interminably on the relationship between chuan and neng-power and ability. Kung Keng said that these concepts were properly defined only in the specific constitutional directives of Kuomintang Founder Sun Yatsen. A tired Young China partyman disrespectfully shouted: "This is no place for orations." Kung Keng, who looks like a medieval wizard, but has a long revolutionary record, paled with anger. His supporters hurled abuse at his critics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Diehards' Defeat | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

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