Word: tse-tung
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...blaring its year-end blessings. Into Peking's Great Hall of the People swarmed 2,836 delegates to the rubber-stamp parliament, the National People's Congress, for its third session in 15 years. Among the "elected" Deputies on hand was, of course, Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, who had just celebrated his 71st birthday, and who, according to the New China News Agency, was still the object of "boundless love...
...mammoth gold stars and carries his money in bulging sacks). During his stay the President was entertained by native dancers who balanced pickaxes, shovels and barrels of mortar on their heads. He supped on cherry pop and sponge cake while solemnly touring a gallery hung with photographs of Mao Tse-tung, Lenin and Lyndon Johnson. He visited a poultry farm, later addressed a mass rally while cows grazed on a nearby golf course and goats gamboled on a cricket field...
...nominate the Chairman of the Communist Party in the People's Republic of China, Mao Tse-tung. This insidious and inscrutable leader of one-fourth of the world's population now holds his finger on the trigger of China's newly developed atomic device. He most certainly altered the course of history...
...F.S.M. at first reflected an "understandable concern" over student political rights, assailed the dissidents as "an instrument of anarchy and political aggrandizement." Even before the sit-in, he had concluded that a handful of activists in the demonstrations "have been impressed with the tactics of Fidel Castro and Mao Tse-tung...
...Latin American tour this fall did not create the impression he had hoped it would: he needed an opportunity to recover prestige. The pre-Inauguration quiet in the United States, the internal machinations in the Soviet Union, and the passing of all the other great figures except Mao Tse-tung, have left the world stage bare. Any move he made now would receive maximum attention...