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After joining the party, Teng studied briefly at Sun Yat-sen University in Moscow and then returned to China in 1926. He rose rapidly in party ranks, becoming political commissar of the Communist Seventh Army at the age of 25. By that time he was a convert to the guerrilla strategies of Mao Tse-tung, the new chairman of the party's military committee. When these theories were attacked by other Communist leaders, Teng was ousted from office?the first of three times he was to suffer this ignominious fate...
...tourney's regulations stipulate there will be three "High Commissioners of Galactic Action" whose decisions will be final; the "Commissar of communication and general Ivy League Profundity," Tim Clifford; the "Commissar of Propulsion and Meandering Sophomoric Prose," Burke St. John; and the "Commissar of Questionable creativity", none other than Aulet...
Down came the technological slogans in the square of Brno, Czechoslovakia (pop. 365,000). Up went huge posters of an intense-looking, white-haired man who could be a commanding commissar but who, in Brno at least, is more venerated than any socialist leader: Czech Composer Leoš Janáček. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its composer's death and the 125th of his birth, Brno has opened a yearlong Janacek celebration, beginning with 27 musical events in a two-week-long gala festival. Students, soldiers and scores of foreign scholars jammed six concert halls...
...been the chief of his delegation since the beginning of SALT in 1969. Among Americans who have dealt with him over the years, Semyonov has the reputation of being a stubborn bargainer who, if necessary, can talk any adversary under the table. He also seems to be the uncontested commissar of his own colleagues in Geneva. "We have a democratic delegation," he once remarked. Paraphrasing the famous ending of George Orwell's Animal Farm, he added: "We are all equal. But I am more equal...
...fellow exiles, such as Poet Joseph Brodsky and Dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov. He is a tireless Five-F man, in constant pursuit (in no special order) of Fiddles, Food, Females, Friends?and Fodka. He is a shameless flirt, eats like an orchestra, and puts away more booze than a commissar at a convention. "What I remember first about Slava," says Seiji Ozawa, "is lots of drinking. He taught me how to drink fantastic amounts. After one night with him, the next day is gone." His constant companion is a pocket-size, wire-haired dachshund named Puks. Rostropovich has taught Puks...