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...price paid for Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, the damage done to China's educational system may prove the biggest-and longest-lasting-backward leap of all. Closing the schools for a year-so that 110 million students could be freed to "exchange revolutionary experiences," "smash" revisionist leaders and "struggle violently against" teachers suspected of harboring anti-Mao views-will mean the loss of two years of education before the school system is put back in running order. But this may be the least of China's troubles. For behind the scenes, Mao's advisers...
...that President Liu Shao-chi, symbol of all the revolution is attacking, had at last been pulled down. But last week, amid reports of continuing clashes between groups of Red Guards vying for power, Radio Peking broadcast an appeal to the Peoples' Liberation Army to stand ready "to smash the counterattack" of the President and his followers. It is possible that Mao welcomes the skirmishes abroad to lessen his followers' frustrations at failing to win a decisive battle in the Cultural Revolution...
Others try to scratch themselves by rubbing against autos, with unfortunate results for the bodywork. Some smash down boundary fences, uproot trees and chase African herdsmen; occasionally, they kill someone. Whether they turn vicious or merely playful, all of them sway and totter about a great deal, as if they were drunk. In fact, they are. Once a year at this time, Kruger Park's elephants go on one of the world's biggest binges...
...military ruler, General Ne Win, declared martial law in Rangoon, and his men fired into mobs which had made three assaults on the Chinese embassy. In turn, Peking denounced the riots as inspired by a "militarist fascist rule" and sent Chinese by the thousands to demonstrate and smash windows at the Burmese embassy in China...
...adaptation of Breakfast at Tiffany's. Still, there were many sellout holdover hits (Mame, Cactus Flower among others) and enough intriguing fresh attractions to build an all-time high Broadway gross of $55 million, up 2% from the season before. Among the high spots were: one major S.R.O. smash, the musical Cabaret; two comedy clicks, Robert Anderson's You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running and Peter Shaffer's Black Comedy; one important drama, Harold Pinter's The Homecoming, which turned a profit only because of a movie sale...