Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Kung, who could pull out one of his hairs and with a breath create an army." More bluntly yet, the Peking People's Daily unprecedentedly admitted the possibility of famine "in certain areas of the country." In face of the hunger that stalks mainland China for the third straight year, even Red China's own propagandists could no longer manage to blink the fact that their country was in the grip of a major agricultural crisis...
...farms was caused, as so often in China's history, by natural disasters-drought and insect pests in the northern provinces, floods along the southern coast. But nature's harshness was compounded by the adoption last year of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's "three-thirds" theory of agriculture, under which one-third of China's land was to be left fallow each year, one-third was to be given over to forest and the final third to be intensively cultivated Japanese-style...
...Laurent, 24, boy wonder of the House of Dior, has avoided a 27-month draftee hitch in the French army. The deferments made sense of a sort: Saint-Laurent, a frail fellow, is a key figure in France's fashion industry. But last week the army rejected his third request to stay bivouacked in his salon. On Sept. 1 he will report for his physical examination, presumably soon thereafter be dreaming of furloughs instead of furbelows...
Died. Leland Olds, 69, regulation-minded Federal Power Commission member from 1939 to 1949 (mostly as chairman), a zealous New Dealer and longtime target of private power interests, whose third-term nomination was rejected by the Senate following hearings centering on his heavy-breathing socialist writings of the 1920s ("The owners exist only [as] a privileged class of parasites whose idleness and dissipation become an increasing stench in the nostrils of the people."); of a heart attack; in Bethesda...
...Moment of Fear (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A summer suspense series continues with The Third Party, about the sudden death of a presidential candidate on election eve. Color...