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Germany's Willie Holdorf pulled a major upset in the Olympics yesterday, beating Nationalist China's C.K. Yang to win the decathlon gold medal...
Latest victims were two widely respected intellectuals, Central Committee Member Yang Hsien-chen, party the oretician and former president of the elite Higher Party School, and Historian (and onetime English professor) Chou Ku-cheng, whose General History of China has been a standard work for nearly 30 years. Their crime was pure heresy: contradicting Mao's infallible doctrine that "everything tends to divide into two," which is the very foundation for Peking's dialectical battle with Moscow. According to the "one-into-two theory," disputes are never resolved except by force, so that Moscow's cherished concept...
According to Yang, the one-into-two doctrine is backwards, suggesting that the Moscow-Peking split is therefore reparable. "The law of the development of things is that two merge into one," he said in a series of lectures and articles that were widely read by party intellectuals. "All opposing social forces are merging. To study dialectics is to learn the capability of linking two opposite ideologies into...
...probability, the criticism was no life-or-death matter for Yang or Chou. But disgrace was doom enough for the pair since it presumably means they will publish no more books and teach no more classes. Which might go to prove their point that even the class struggle has its limits...
...cyclist, narrowly losing one contest, bursts into tears; the barefoot Bikila Abebe sprints through torchlit Roman streets to win the 26-mile marathon and Ethiopia's first Olympic gold medal; U.S. Decathlon Champion Rafer Johnson consolingly embraces his close friend and runner-up, Taiwan's C. K. Yang. Poignant drama erupts when a Russian pole vaulter disastrously breaks his ankle. There is comedy, too, as a narrator dryly remarks of Britain's winning, waddling roadwalker: "One cannot honestly say that he presents an impeccable silhouette...