Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...China's biggest university. He boned up on Russian, added a bit of Lenin to make "my new system of thinking," and began publishing treatises on population and agriculture. For boldly arguing that agricultural output should be boosted before tackling industrialization, Ma came under heavy orthodox attack, only to be handsomely vindicated when Mao Tse-tung himself ordered the economic revolution of the communes 18 months ago. Now he complains that the critics dragged out against him are "new names" unworthy of his stature, and adds defiantly: "I will never capitulate to those critics who are bent on bringing...
...latest essay, Economist Ma was allowed to attack one of the most sacred of official Peking views-that an ever-increasing population is a source of Chinese strength. If China is to advance at the pace its leaders have set, argued Ma, it must raise the quality of its population -i.e., the productivity of its labor force -and control its quantity. For example. he demanded, how can China think that 20,000 men can do the work of one Soviet electronic computer? If China's population explosion is not contained, he went on, "sooner or later the peasants will...
...plow up disputed land in the demilitarized zone between Israel and Syria, south of the Sea of Galilee. It became something else when Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion got word at a Cabinet meeting that an Israeli border policeman had been killed in the exchanges. He ordered a reprisal attack of the kind that Israel used to launch across Arab borders before the Sinai invasion three years...
...would kindly switch off that projector which is disturbing my work." Israeli shells zeroed in, and the light snapped off. As Syrian artillery opened up, the Israeli infantry bumped into a machine-gun nest in the presumably unarmed village, wiped it out with a grenade attack. After that the Israelis placed two tons of dynamite under the village walls and withdrew. One hour later, most of Tawafik's 40-odd houses blew up with a roar that shook the Jordan River valley...
...candidate Weatherly two years ago. In the dinghy next him may be George Hinman, commodore of the New York Yacht Club; Bus Mosbacher, helmsman of Vim and one of sailing's best young skippers; or Cornelius ("Glit") Shields Jr., whose celebrated sailor father suffered a heart attack while frostbiting at the age of 61 four years ago. Fact is, sailing a dinghy is probably even trickier than sailing a twelve-meter, and a greater test of individual skill. Instead of eleven trained men ready to leap to his command, the skipper has only himself and perhaps one small shivering...