Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Red China's economic reassessment began last December when moonfaced Chairman Mao Tse-tung met with the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in the bustling Yangtze River industrial complex of Wuhan. Although party propagandists were still extolling the miracles of production that had been achieved during Red China's "great leap forward" in 1958, the harsh fact before Mao and his colleagues was that the great leap forward had actually brought China close to economic chaos. By concentrating the nation's economic resources on a series of "shock programs" -above all, the great campaign...
...Chess Game. To remedy all this, Mao and his colleagues brusquely ordered local Communist cadres "to tidy up the people's communes" before mid-April, when Red China's 1959 economic plan must be approved by the nation's pseudo-parliament. To acquire the additional activists desperately needed to tighten up government control over the communes, the Chinese Communist Party has recruited an estimated 1,000,000 new members in the last five months. Mao has also thrown into the communes army units of up to division strength to lend a hand with plowing, irrigation projects, training...
...communes has gone an all-out drive for sensible priorities in industry. "Take the whole country as a coordinated chess game," urges the People's Daily. "To guarantee construction of important projects, we must learn how to give up favorite local projects." The theoretical journal Red Flag demanded fewer shock programs, insisted that even during such programs, "sufficient labor should be reserved for normal production." In Manchuria, local planners, quick to take a hint, announced that railway laborers "drawn from the water conservancy and iron and steel battlefronts . . . will be asked to handle food shipments in the way they...
...Boston's aging (40), terrible-tempered Slugger Ted Williams, the coming of spring carries inevitable splinters of physical woe. Last week, a fortnight after he first winced at a pain in the shoulder, Red Sox Star Williams shambled glumly into Boston's Lahey Clinic. Doctors studied his pinched nerve, began treatments. Ever-hopeful Ted, who has been benched almost a dozen times in his long career by such ills as a broken collarbone, a fractured elbow, ankle sprains and virus attacks, hoped to be at the season's opener, April...
...Francisco Giants trailed the Boston Red Sox 4-0 as they went to bat in the first inning of an exhibition game at Phoenix, Ariz. last week. Boston's lead lasted less than five minutes. The Giants' Utility Infielder Ed Bressoud led off with a home run. Outfielder Willie Mays hit a triple to deepest center field. First Baseman Orlando Cepeda walloped a 450-ft. home run, and Outfielder Jackie Brandt followed with another homer-all off Ike Delock, Boston's winningest pitcher last year. In his box behind third base, the Giants' President Horace Stoneham...