On the reviewing stand in Peking, Chairman Mao Tse-tung reigned supreme as local Queen of the May. Before him for six hours paraded half a million Chinese-labor heroes, model workers, writers, dramatists, Yangko dancers, artists, and soldiers marching, singing and dancing their way past the Heavenly Peace Gate. To top it all, a group of 60,000 students pranced by, each holding aloft a volume of Mao's recently published collected works.
But though the Peking leader's presence ^dominated the local scene, huge in-criptions decorating the parade square made it tactfully clear that an even greater leader still lived in Moscow. Stalin's...
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