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Chen's feat was the latest product of the ten-year athletic program launched by Red China's Mao Tse-tung with the avowed intention of producing citizens "capable of more and harder work in China's socialist reconstruction." Red China's muscled minions, according to the Peking press, "resolutely pledged themselves to overcome all difficulties and all individualist ideas existing in their innermost minds, and strive to become the vanguard on the physical-culture front." Chen himself gave due credit to patriotic inspiration. "During the jerk event, I was somewhat nervous," said he, "but just...
...Weighed Representative Robert Blodgett's proposed ten-year ban on new government buildings in Juneau, the state capital. "I wouldn't want them to get carried away with illusions of grandeur," Blodgett explained. But Blodgett himself got carried away in speaking for his bill to set aside 5,000,000 acres of land to provide income for the University of Alaska. "Why, some day," he exclaimed, "we could have the greatest university in the country...
...masses, who are trucked to the polls every six years to vote their approval of the planters' latest officer-candidate for President. The head count of 2,400,000 citizens ranks El Salvador as the most crowded nation on the American continents, and population, despite an infant mortality rate of 20%, keeps going up by 4% a year. But Lemus, an efficient President, has completed the best road network in Central America. Now he would like to raise $190 million in public and private funds to fuel an ambitious "ten-year plan" designed to diversify agriculture, build schools, houses...
...Radcliffe Development Fund has collected $4,005,302 in less than four years of its ten-year drive to raise $10 million, Robert L. Hunneman '28, National Chairman of the Fund, announced Saturday...
Future plans of the Development Fund include a one-day "Radcliffe Panorama" on April 15 for alumnae, parents, and friends, who are expected to provide most of the ten-year total...