Word: pye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...significant power struggle is probably already in progress over the succession to the Chinese leadership," Lucian W. Pye, professor of Political Science at M.I.T. told a meeting of Americans for Reappraisal of Far Eastern Policy last night...
China-watching will become increasingly important as the old leaders fade back and the new ones come onstage. Says M.I.T. Professor Lucian Pye: "Though Chinese Communism is here to stay, it is certainly going to change greatly." There are plenty of important clues for the China-watchers to keep their eye out for. They will watch for signs that the younger technocrats in the Chinese government are making any headway against the insistence on doctrinal purity, as the technocrats have done in Russia. Will the successors of Mao, involved with their own problems, retreat in the face of American power...
...hamburgers all over town. Yet only 17 months ago, Connecticut College Coed Mardon Walker, 18, was considered such a menace when she joined a sit-in at a Krystal counter that she was arrested for trespass and hauled before Fulton County's terrible-tempered Judge Durward T. Pye...
...Mardon, the white daughter of a U.S. Navy captain, Pye meted out the absolute maximum sentence-a $1,000 fine, six months in jail and twelve months' hard labor in a county work camp. Pye set Mardon's appeal bond at a whopping $15,000, to be secured by unencumbered property only. She appealed to Georgia's highest court-and lost...
...Court reversed Mardon's conviction with a brief order explaining that all such sit-in cases have been rendered moot by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. "We are glad Miss Walker's long ordeal is over," rejoiced the Atlanta Constitution in an editorial slap at Segregationist Judge Pye. "We only wish she had not had to go to Washington to get justice...