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This collapse of the will to resist surprised even the Communists themselves, who suddenly revised their calculations upward. In July Mao predicted that the New China was about to witness the "high tide of the great socialist revolution." In January of this year he said the tide was running. Last July Mao announced that only 16.9 million of the no million "peasant households" had been forced into producer cooperatives; by December he was able to announce that "more than 60% of peasant families" were in cooperatives-an astonishing increase of 53.1 million peasant families in six months...
...hearing the news. Mrs. Elizabeth Eastland gulped: "It comes as a surprise." Affably drawled Jim Eastland: "No comment." The Senator's consolation, if he decides to let his children stay at Sidwell: unless his kiddies flunk several grades, or some of the late-coming Negro students are skipped upward, the Eastland children will not have colored classmates...
...serious effort at portraying Blanche Du Bois's neurotic downhill journey, did Tallulah herself sweep onward and upward in triumph? Unfortunately, no. Such a result belongs to the dream world that Blanche inhabits, not to the real world that Tallulah evokes. Too often frustrated, tremulous Blanche was one thing, leopard-like Tallulah another; and they could not exchange their spots. Instead of genteel make-believe, there was a kind of barbaric grand manner...
...asking the voters for another favor: the seat in the U.S. Senate made famous by the late Robert A. Taft, and now uneasily occupied by George Bender. Lausche's eye is firmly fixed on the Senate, but if the Lausche luck holds, he may lift his gaze upward this year to a far more important job in Washington, the presidency...
...shows it, sees the farmer as a blameless straggler in the general march to prosperity. Ike wants to get him back in line as soon as possible so that the farmer can march up the graph lines with everybody else&-and, more important, because the general economy cannot march upward for long without the farmer...