Word: pe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much of the evening, Jason (Pe ter MacLean) also seems to be Lucifer, ranging between brazen malice and wily seductiveness. He has summoned into session a kind of miniature parliament of seven representative humans, and he wants to wring from them a unanimous vote for fire. Sometimes he uses verbal third-degree tactics, evocative of the rapid-fire non sequiturs gunned at each other by the characters in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead...
...long after he was posted to Pe king as French cultural counselor in 1964, Marcel Girard met Premier Chou En-lai and told him of an ambitious plan. He would like, said Girard, to put together the first guidebook to China since the Communists took power in 1949-and indeed, since the Japanese railways tried to produce one in 1924. Chou looked at the Frenchman in disbelief, saying only: "I wish you lots of luck...
Giant Stalin. The week's most dramatic event, the fall of Antonin No votny, followed a country-wide clamor for his resignation. At noisy meetings throughout Czechoslovakia, Novotny was denounced and taunted. In Slova kia, portraits of him were burned. Pe titions for his dismissal poured into Prague. Seeing that he was through, many of Novotny's old friends, including the army general staff, joined the chorus against him. Novotny closed himself off in Hradcany Castle on a hill overlooking Prague, hoping that the storm would blow over. When a news paper suggested that illness might give...
They hope to pick up a large number of the 33,000 voters who went for Henry Cabot Lodge in the 1964 primary here, along with almost all of the 19,000 who went for Rockefeller in that race. This would give Rockefeller between 35 and 45 pe rcent of the vote...
With the Cultural Revolution, Mao originally intended to sweep away the musty party machinery and replace it with a more revolutionary and popular-based organization. The nucleus of his new organization-a "grand alliance" of loyal government workers, military men and Red Guards-is well established in Pe king, Shanghai and five of China's 26 provinces and regions. But in other areas, the Cultural Revolution has only succeeded in breaking down local organization without supplanting it with any workable substitute...