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Although Parker gave PT-credit for the freshman ping-pong tournament, he refused the Gargoyle tiddly-wink team similar recognition. He also balked when a freshman expressed interest in a 100-mile run sponsored by the YMCA...
Those who do get in receive rigorous physical and intellectual training. An enlisted man will find army drill difficult and intense, and boisterous ping pong matches after dinner no less exhausting. In the evening he reads or studies with a small group the works of Mao Tse-tung. Several of the shorter essays have to be memorized, especially those that describe the communist soldier's duties--obey the Party, love the People. That means, he learns, return what you borrow, do favors for the peasants, don't mistreat their daughters...
...anti-Mao peasants was reported gathering-and daring Mao's Red Guards to come and fight them. Wall posters announced the suicide of onetime Army Chief of Staff Lo Jui-ching and other officials, plus the attempted suicides of three other Mao enemies: Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping, Economic Planner Po Yi-po, and Supreme People's Court President Yang Hsiu-feng. Marshal Peng Teh-huai, Red China's hero of the Korean War, was reported under arrest...
President Liu Shao-chi last week was depicted in wall cartoons as Don Quixote charging against Mao's teaching. Beside him, as Sancho Panza, rode Liu's chief ally against Mao, Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping. A less kind cartoon showed Liu as a barking dog being drowned under the sun of Mao's teachings, and Liu's wife was crudely caricatured as a prostitute. That catty note may well have been the inspiration of Mrs. Mao, who likes to go by her screen name of Chiang Ching, which she acquired as a grade...
...introduction to the poster said that Liu had made his confession last October at a party caucus. And for all the Red Guard denunciations before and since, Liu is still President of China. The conclusion of Sinologists: Mao's opposition, including such "revisionists" as Party Secretary Teng Hsiao-ping, is still too powerfully entrenched in the party apparatus, still has too much of a following in the countryside to be summarily ousted...