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...they were never enough to satisfy the communist party chairman or occasion complacency. Even at age 72 he inaugurated a second revolution in China, aimed at "revisionists," whom Mao felt were not true to the goals of socialist revolution. As the personal symbol of China's potential for renewed vigor, Mao swam against the currents of the Yangtze River. When China's agricultural production dropped, he went without meat. Mao did not expect any Chinese citizen to make a sacrifice that he himself could not endure--he was a leader in the purest sense of the word...
British Journalist Henry Fairlie has written of the American resurgence, of a nation regaining its courage and vigor. Yet the caretaker of this resurgence is at an extraordinarily low ebb in public opinion, leading a party also in bad estate...
...airlines' markets, thus at least theoretically putting downward pressure on fares. That, say airline chiefs like TWA's Charles Tillinghast Jr., would result in a "free-for-all" and drive down revenue just when the lines most need it. The Administration seems to have tempered its initial vigor, and needed compromise will probably not come until the next presidential term...
...boom years of the 1960s, every American city resounded to the din of construction. No project seemed too ambitious; builders confidently razed vast downtown areas, and their architects just as confidently designed huge structures to fill the voids. The trouble was that instead of creating new life and vigor downtown, the projects were all too often sterile and uninviting-reason enough, though there were others as well, for businesses and middle-class city dwellers to opt for the suburbs. In 1966 Edward J. Logue, then the highly respected chief of Boston's redevelopment program, succinctly defined the times...
...Reverend Mr. Fithian, he recalls that the serenaders "were hearty" and one of them later was accused of "breaking, and in the warmth of his heart... entering the lodging room of buxom Kate [not further identified]." Fithian attributes this assault to "a plentiful use of these vigor-giving waters." As a result, the young man "was urged, he was compelled, by the irresistible call of renewed nature...