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...thrived on chaos all his life, and Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution provided plenty of that. Mao first singled out his comrade for the succession in 1966, largely because Lin had instilled the partially demoralized People's Liberation Army with genuine political fervor. So impressed was Mao by the reversal in the army's spirit that he made the PLA the model for the hoped-for political transformation of China over the next several years. In August 1966, at a mass rally in Peking's Tienanmen Square, Lin appeared at Mao's side...
Peking's exhortations were designed to rally fervor for China's latest economic venture. The project bears a striking resemblance to the Great Leap Forward of a decade ago, probably Mao Tse-tung's most ambitious scheme for China, and his most disastrous failure...
Once again, it was high noon in Athens. Once again, the big shoot-up paired off two old adversaries, Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos. For the past dozen years, they have clashed over business deals with almost the same fervor that they seek to outdo each other in their personal lives. The spoils have been about equally divided. Niarchos, whose estimated wealth is just under $500 million, won the license to run the country's first oil refinery and vast shipyards. Onassis, who is worth just over $500 million, got the national airline concession...
Dramatic and significant as the controversy is, most of the issues involved are neither new nor applicable only to the ABM among major military pro grams. The weapon itself has been under discussion for many years without ex citing the degree of fervor it has prompted recently...
MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR, the angry atheist, may well have more religious fervor than anyone since Cotton Mather. Her fervor is aimed at making sure that reports of God's death are not exaggerated. Spouting the Constitution as Scripture, she has forced the Supreme Court to ban compulsory public-school prayers, threatened the tax exemption on church property, and is currently protesting the astronauts' moonside recitation of Genesis last Christmas Eve. "I'm no eccentric," she said recently. "I'm the leader of a valid movement...