Word: victimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was plenty of Maoist presence in the continuing purge of "pragmatic" intellectuals and administrators that began two weeks ago with the downfall of Poet-Scientist Kuo Mojo (TIME, May 13). Latest victim of the "rectification campaign" aimed at restoring rigid Mao-think is Teng To, a sometime litterateur and secretary of the Peking municipal party organization. Also missing from public view and mention: Peking Mayor Peng Chen, 67, an upper-echelon Politburo member who was long regarded as a contender for Mao's chair when he dies. Peng's top adversary is Defense Minister Lin Piao...
Michigan Radiologist Hugh T. Caumartin, for one, decided the sacrifice was more than worthwhile. As a World War II victim of leg injuries from machine-gun fire, he had to get a fitness clearance. When Orthopedist Hugh L. Sulfridge Jr. checked Caumartin and pronounced him fit, Sulfridge himself caught the volunteer spirit. Both doctors flew out last month, Caumartin to read X rays and teach radiological techniques in Saigon, while Sulfridge went to the 70-year-old complex of decaying buildings that makes up the hospital at Can Tho, 80 miles southwest of the capital, in the steaming Mekong Delta...
...chattering like chimps, cavorted about the stage with sections of aluminum tubing, which they suddenly fashioned into a 16-ft.-high Tower of Babel with flags emblazoned IBM, A.M.A. and CBS. The results were at once fast, funny and evocative glimpses of man as both the victor and the victim of his environment...
...robust curse: "You hog of hell, you leper's death-puke!" A bleak, black coda to the book-within-a-book says enigmatically: "Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop." Was Trellis mad? It is hard to say. Was he a victim of hallucinations? Professor Unternehmer, the German neurologist, allows Trellis "an inverted sow neurosis, wherein the farrow eats their...
...days ago Yale lowered its overall record to 7-18-1 by throwing away a 5-2 decision to Columbia, a 10-9 victim of Harvard last weekend...