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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jacob K. Javits...
...forbidden to marry the woman of his choice because of her "bad" class background. In "Chairman Mao Is a Rotten Egg," a young mother is virtually overcome by anxiety because her small child is rumored to have repeated a counterrevolutionary slogan picked up on the street from his playmates. K'uai Shih-fu is a common worker who, irritated because he cannot buy fish at the market, is provoked into a small but redeeming act of political defiance. These subtle, honest tales are apt to be considered literary oddities, parochial stories set in an exotic political landscape. They deserve...
Lecture: "The Chinese Revolution in the 1970s." John K. Fairbank, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History Emeritus. 4 p.m., Emerson 105. Free...
Longer than two football fields, taller than a 16-story building, the off-white structure floating up the Amazon looked like a jungle apparition. In fact, it was a huge paper factory that Daniel K. Ludwig, the secretive shipping, mining and real estate industrialist whose net worth is estimated to be as high as $3 billion, intends to use in exploiting 500,000 acres of timberland that he owns in the Brazilian wilderness...
...other people do. Though the justices have a mixed record on press-freedom issues, last week's decision was seen by many journalists as unmistakable evidence of court hostility to the press. Los Angeles Times Editor William Thomas blasted the decision as "incredible and terrible." ABC News Commentator Howard K. Smith called it the "most dangerous ruling the court has made in memory." Washington Star Executive Editor Sidney Epstein was afraid the court had removed an essential press "safeguard," while the Washington Post editorialized that police had been given "the right to rummage" in journalists' files...