Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next in line is presumed to be Liu Shao-chi, Moscow-trained party theoretician. Last week Red China published his 16,000-word keynote speech to the 19-day closed session of the eighth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. His confident theme: "In the past the party concentrated its efforts mainly on socialist revolution . . . Now we can and must concentrate on socialist construction...
...reckless advance." He admitted that a retrenchment had followed, but for those who weary of such economic jargon as saucering out of recession, Liu had a classic new Communist equivalent to offer: there had been, he said, a "U-shaped advance" in China's economy during the past two years. The first four months of 1958 had registered a significant "leap forward" in industrial and agricultural production, he added. Western specialists believe there is opposition inside the top leadership over the relentless "leap forward" policy, and noted how much space Liu devoted to justifying the speedup. Connoisseurs of Communist...
...Espaillat to waive his diplomatic immunity for questioning. Sydney Baron, the ex-Tammany Hall pressagent who acted as go-between for Trujillo and Ernst, said that the inquiry was "very comprehensive and expensive," that both Ernst and Baron would probably get more than their original guarantees, boosting the cost past the first estimate of $160,000. Trujillo doubtless will cheerfully...
...younger priests, some of whom he had known in prep school. One of these, Irish-born Father Malachy Shanaghan, who is now head of St. Bernard's English department and finishing a Ph.D. thesis on Novelist William Faulkner, describes the change they put into effect: "In the past, if a monk went to a university, it was thought he would come back less a monk. Now we believe that a man is less a Christian for ignoring his education...
...familiar Cathedral of the Holy Name on North State Street, the body of the Bishop of Charity lay in state on a black-draped catafalque before the altar rail, while thousands upon thousands of the humble people who were Samuel Stritch's special concern moved quietly past...