Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chairman of the Republic took office: dour, self-effacing Liu Shao-chi (see box). With the announcement, Peking's vast Square of Heavenly Peace resounded to the beating of gongs, the clash of cymbals, the rataplan of exploding firecrackers. Demonstrators marched 110 abreast in a swirl of red banners and colored scarves. The usually gloomy and provincial streets blazed with electric lights strung on eaves and curving roofs; red stars and neon signs shone against the night sky; big, pumpkin-shaped lanterns dangled from the gates of the Imperial City...
...outside world could judge, Red China's leaders were in the process of providing for the succession, and doing so with an apparent unity that-whatever else might be said about his regime-was a tribute to the organizational skill of Mao Tse-tung. They acted at a most delicate time, with a revolt in Tibet, with economic disorder at home, and with the nation exposed abroad as a truculent aggressor with no regard for Asian opinion...
Since the Tibetan revolt against Red rule could not be explained away, it had to be shouted away. The horror expressed by neutral nations at Red brutality was answered by strident threats; even India's docile Prime Minister Nehru was pictured as an archvillain who is holding the escaped Dalai Lama "under duress." Now India joined the list of monstrous enemies: Formosa, Britain, the U.S., even tiny states like Thailand and Nepal. "We will never allow those foul hogs to poke their snouts into our beautiful garden!" shouted a Congress delegate...
...last two outings before the crucial Yale match next Thursday, the undefeated varsity tennis team takes on Columbia at New York today and Cornell at Soldiers Field at 2 p.m. tomorrow. The Big Red is definitely the stronger of the two, but neither team should give the varsity much difficulty...
...good number one in sophomore Don Rubell, as does Columbia in senior Lloyd Moglen, but Crimson captain Ned Weld should handle them if he is even nearly as efficient as he was Wednesday against Dartmouth's Dick Hoehn. Below the top man, neither the Lions nor the Big Red is very deep, and the varsity is a heavy favorite in both matches...