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...late 1940s, little oil exploration had been conducted in China. In the '50s, Russian experts helped in tapping several big finds, but in 1960 they pulled out, leaving the barely experienced Chinese on their own. Their departure coincided with the conclusion of Mao's Great Leap Forward, which was intended to initiate the masses into the discipline and skills required in an industrial society. The consequence: a huge stumble backward that hurt China's developing industries. After a few years of respite, Mao's second self-inflicted economic catastrophe, the Cultural Revolution...
Duels at dawn are as familiar as graveside scenes in the rain, and the news that The Duellists is a visually opulent costume drama set in France at the time of he Napoleonic Wars does not make the heart leap...
...said one Midwestern farmer during the early '50s. The prescription for homegrown Reds was McCarthyism, which threatened democracy more than the encapsulated cells of the American Communist Party. In the end, the beleaguered party withered away, stunned by Khrushchev's anti-Stalinism and sadly watching the proletariat leap over the threshold to the middle class. Marxist rhetoric could not compete with the ad-gab of prosperity...
...Harvard attack was spearheaded by three first place finishes. In the high jump, Dan Sullivan claimed the top slot for the Crimson with a leap of 6 ft., 8 in., a feat the spectators at the Indoor Track and Tennis Building have grown used to seeing this season. Harvard's Mark Young took fourth place honors in this event...
Stowell predicted a one-two Harvard finish in the 35-lb. weight event, with defending champion Ed Ajootian and Tom Lenz leading the pack. Meanwhile, captain Dan Sullivan is the favorite in the high jump, with his 6-ft. 10-in. leap the best this year among the GBC field...