Word: threes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...designed to speed up industrial production. There were the "Four Highs" (high speed, high production, high technique, high quality) and the "Five Too Manys" (too many meetings, too many cadres, too many organizations, too many reports and too many forms to fill out). Now the emphasis is on the "Three Loves" (love country, love commune, love labor), "Four Togethernesses" (cadres and commune workers eat together, live together, work together, consult together) and "Five Samenesses" (cadres eat the same fare as peasants, do same work, get same pay, receive same criticism and their dependents are treated the same...
...General Phoumi countered by convening most of the members of the National Assembly. They voted Prince Souvanna out of office and named as the new Premier Boun Oum, a silver-haired, pro-U.S. princeling from Laos' lush southern hill country. Then by river boat, foot and plane, three battalions of Phoumi's troops moved on Vientiane...
Changing Flags. For three days the battle lines shifted. Desertions were commonplace and simple to effect; a soldier of uncertain mind had only to change the red arm band of the Kong Le faction for the white band of General Phoumi. Anxious to please, shopkeepers waved red or white flags as the tide of battle wavered...
There the matter stood simmering until September of this year, when Velasco Ibarra became Ecuador's President for the fourth (nonconsecutive) time, immediately announced that he wanted the tract. When the U.S. and its three peacemaking partners held firm, the mobs began to move...
...Congo-for Satchmo, anyway-is as safe as a cat's own front porch. "Half the times I didn't know whether I was in the Congo or out of it," graveled Armstrong. "Them African places all look alike. But Léopoldville was great. I had three armies escorting me everywhere I went. There was the United Nations cats, the Congo cats, and then we had Ghanaian troops all around us. A man gets good protection in the Congo." But Satchmo's best life insurance was his refusal to talk politics: "I just took a John...