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Beware Impetuosity. It was a fantastic undertaking. One measure of how far Mao is from success is the state of the 17 million-member Chinese Communist Party, which marked its 50th anniversary last week. Mao demolished the party during the Cultural Revolution in his effort to wipe out the "capitalist readers" and others who did not share his own mystical concept of the revolution. He hoped to replace them with freshly radicalized, totally Maoized youth who would be prepared to spend their lives in permanent struggle. But they have yet to appear...
Along with reunion chairman C. Rodgers Burgin '21 and classmates Roy E. Larsen '21 and W. Houston Kenyon Jr. '21, Lowell has collected more than $520,000-representative contributions front over half of the class-to fund this 50th gathering of the class...
Wrinkles and Wisps. The new series of Museum Pieces, due for sale at Saks by the end of May, took even more scouring. One piece, an 1860 Chinese silk wall hanging from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, commemorates the 50th anniversary of a noble marriage; the figures are complete with embroidered wrinkles and fine wisps of hair. Jenny Bell backed the hanging with two layers of silk and cut it into two skirts (about $700 each...
With the situation as volatile as it is, the Unionist government-incredibly -has gone right ahead with its plans for "Ulster '71," a summer-long festival to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Ulster's founding. Unless things cool considerably by May, the affair could well earn the nickname suggested recently by Belfast wits: "Explo...
...when Ulster's Protestant-dominated government has begun to move toward meeting the legitimate demands of the Catholics? The militants apparently have three objectives: 1) to curtail the frequent Protestant demonstrations and, particularly, to alter official plans for this year's "Ulster '71" celebration, marking the 50th anniversary of Ireland's partition; 2) to provoke the army into overreacting against Catholic rioters, particularly children, in order to win over Catholic moderates who have been increasingly alienated by the militants' bloody tactics; and 3) to prod the populace into a general uprising that would eventually lead...