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Anderson, who as of 1970 owned more land in the United States than any other individual, and owned one of the nation's largest cattle operations, has built a reputation based on his patronage of educational, medical and cultural institutions and his rapid rise to power in the energy field...
...Communist Party Central Committee announced that the long and often bitter purge of the Gang of Four, Peking's disgraced radical faction, had "in the main been completed victoriously." From now on, said the announcement, the stress will no longer be on the criticism campaign but on rapid economic growth...
Chinese stage shows and movies are in rapid transformation. The Peking Cinema College reopened this year after having been suspended for twelve years The country's first X-rated film, a Japanese movie about prostitution, was shown to Chinese audiences and even defended by the Kwangming Daily, which said that it greatly enlightened and educated the Chinese audience." The newspaper went on to argue that young people must be freed from...
...predictable." But then price boosts speeded up from Jan. 1 onward far faster than anyone had expected. The 1978 rise of 9.5% compares with 6.8% last year. The increase was particularly unnerving because there was no obvious, overwhelming cause-no oil crisis or crop failure or wild speculative boom. Rapid inflation came to be recognized not as an aberration but as a terrifying built-in tendency, a consequence of too many demands being put by too many people on a limited amount of national wealth. In an April speech, Carter put the point in a striking metaphor: "Inflation has become...
...money, the town is attracting the usual motley con men and drifters, losers and locos. The trucks barreling between the town and the fields rarely stop when they hit a pedestrian. About one pedestrian is killed each night, often a bewildered campesino still unable to grasp the rapid changes. Whores flash their gold-toothed smiles while cruising the wide boulevards, which have been newly rebuilt with pink paving stone. Rifle-toting policemen patrol the downtown banking area because, as one shopkeeper laments, "this is the season of the rateros [thieves], and they know this is a money town...