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Amidst the flotsam of rumors, one fascinating tidbit made the rounds in Washington last week. It was that North Viet Nam's President Ho Chi Minh was in Peking, presumably explaining to Mao Tse-tung & Co. the reasons for a shift in stance. It was perfectly clear that the Chinese were not at all happy about the prospect of a bombing pause if it involved the slightest concession on Hanoi's part...
...hard in history-conscious China. But they do die, as devotees of the highly stylized form of music drama called Peking opera are beginning to learn. The death is especially painful when the executioner is China's cultural queen, Chiang Ching, the wife of Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung...
...military hated the words. "A subversive lyric," said General Luis de Franĉa Oliveira, Rio's secretary of public security. "A musical cadence of the Mao Tse-tung type that can easily serve as the anthem for student street demonstrations." In a fit of anger, police in Rio's main street arrested one group of youths merely for listening to Caminhando outside a record shop...
...sponsored scholarships; many contributed to America's nuclear and missile technology. During the feverish Red hunts of the early 1950s, many of the scientists fled the U.S., while others were deported. Eighty returned to China-taking with them vast amounts of information-and were pressed into Mao Tse-tung's service. Ryan and Summerlin offer evidence that some would have stayed in America if given the chance...
After this, the box is supplied with a raised platform so that it seems like the sun deck of an ocean liner. On it sit and stand four characters. One is Chairman Mao Tse-tung (Wyman Pendleton), who mouths Marxist-Leninist platitudes about the irreparable decline of the imperialist West. Another character is a decayed society drone (Nancy Kelly) who recalls her frustrated attempt at suicide together with such intimate details of her sex life as the smooth tautness of her husband's scrotum. Another woman (Sudie Bond) recites the doggerel couplets of a poem called Over the Hill...