Word: proletarian
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Need for a Bang. The true value of the Chinese test last week was psychological and political. It came when the U.S. and its Asian allies were meeting in Manila. At the same time, Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution needed a bang, and the announcement of the missile-borne nuclear test filled that need. The test showed that Chinese science is "advancing at even greater speed under the brilliant illumination of Mao Tse-tung's thought," crowed Peking's characteristically pompous communiqu...
...Guards have failed so far to make good their boast to export the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to the rest of the world. But some signs of Mao Tse-tung's new way of doing things have cropped up in Red China's embassies abroad. Soon after he unleashed his teen-age zealots in Peking, Mao dispatched an order to his diplomats: act in a proletarian way, do your own dishes, tend your own garden, wear simple clothing, be frugal...
...Chinese embassy in Bern has put away such art treasures as the horse statuette from the Tang period, which once was proudly shown to Swiss visitors as a masterpiece of Chinese culture. In the trade exposition in Algiers, guests now are confronted with patriotic placards: "Long live the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. This Way Out." Embassy staffers in Cairo replaced statues of Venus and other classical figures with a huge photo...
...China. Three million Chinese crowded into the vast square as Mao and his lieutenants filed onto the reviewing stand to the martial strains of The East Is Red. Sinologists studied the standing order for clues as to who was up and who was down in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. But the order seemed unchanged from last month's rallies: Defense Minister Lin Piao was ranked No. 2, Premier Chou En-lai No. 3. There was, however, one surprise: Madame Sun Yatsen, the widow of the founder of the Chinese Republic, who has been denounced by the Red Guards...
...automobile. According to a Peking report, six "pacesetters" in an auto factory in Changchum, 350 miles northeast of Peking, testified that they "started from scratch" to produce a new car, with Mao's thought as the "guiding principle." What they aspired to, they proudly proclaimed, "was proletarian art, not an imitation of foreign models...