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...second was Wang Yu-ts'ai, who stole a pair of rubber shoes. While on a working assignment, he once ate an extra bun stuffed with meat, and the Deputy Commander fiercely shouted at him: "Who gave you permission to eat that extra bun?" Later, his old disease, epilepsy, broke out twice as a result of these emotional disturbances. Wang took his own life...
...struggle and caused a number of comrades who are not thoroughly imbued with the policy and strategy of the party to be confused about the role of the political struggle." For such party leaders who are "less versatile and creative," Tien Phong ticked off some dos and don'ts for beating the imperialists...
...unfailing courtesy. "I never give orders," he once said. "I sell my ideas to my associates if I can." He generally could, and many of his ideas still stand as guiding principles for G.M. In the auto industry's infancy, Henry Ford produced economical, unchanging, sober-styled Model Ts for a mass market. It was Sloan who first sensed that Americans wanted something more than mere wheels and a combustion engine. "Mr. Ford," he later recalled, "failed to realize that it was necessary for new cars to do more than meet the need for basic transportation. Middle-income buyers...
Threadbare Tires. A onetime editor of the Daily Princetonian, Ridgeway, 29, put in a stint on the Wall Street Journal before coming to the New Republic. He makes sure that he ge'ts his facts correct and avoids the doctrinaire "New Left" politics that fills much of the rest of the magazine. "I don't think things should be cast in black and white," he says. "These subjects are complicated and difficult to get at. What I want to do is take a point of view that is unreported and provide people with that different perspective...
...before. Such is the verdict of the annual survey of 23 cities around the world conducted by London's staid Financial Times. The Times reports that the basic cost of food, clothing, lodging and entertaining has gone up almost everywhere-and suggests a few dos and don'ts for the savvy...