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...last week had a stern message to deliver about at least one troublous area: Red China and Formosa. His speech, delivered in Manhattan at the twelfth annual conference of the Far East-America Council of Commerce and Industry, came against the background of Red China's saber-rattling tenth anniversary fete fortnight ago, when Communist Defense Minister Lin Piao, with Khrushchev on hand, condemned the U.S., proclaimed that nobody would be permitted to interfere in Peking's "liberation" of Formosa...
Ralph Perry continued his steady running, finishing sixth, and Greg Baldwin closed out the varsity's scoring with his seventh-place effort. The Crimson's last two official contestants, Wes Hildreth and Don Kirkland, took eighth and ninth, and Dick Slansky came in tenth...
...pursuit of 60 golden lions, Red China's Mao Tse-tung beamed in the morning sunlight, bland and benign-looking as ever. Beside him, applauding energetically, was Nikita Khrushchev, ruler of all the Russias, who had arrived from Moscow by propjet the day before to help celebrate the tenth anniversary of Red rule in China. Just a step behind the two leaders loomed a tall, gaunt, grey-faced figure whose voice and countenance were far better known to the ruling circles of Communism than to the paraders below. His name: Liu Shao-chi. His rank: Chairman of the Chinese...
...honor who had flocked into Peking from 87 countries, Nikita Khrushchev could scarcely fail to be impressed by Peking's display of might and by the fireworks, the glittering banquets and the gleaming new buildings that Red China's masters had conjured up to mark their tenth year in power. But behind the gala façade lay a grim reality: the world's biggest and brashest Communist state was stumbling into the most critical year of its existence. Says a Western diplomat stationed in Peking: "The place is a monumental mess...
...Peking's retreat end there. By August of this year, there was no avoiding the most humiliating and face-losing necessity of all: public revision of the inflated 1958 production claims. With only five weeks to go until the tenth anniversary of Communist power in China, Peking was obliged to admit to the world that the big leap had fallen painfully short, and that production goals for 1959 had been sharply reduced (see chart...