EVB2923946: Backyard furnace in China during the disastrous 'Great Leap Forward.' The government encouraged peasants to make small quantities of steel in primitive backyard blast furnace. Over one million smelters were set up in the 'battle for steel'. The results were chaotic and uneconomic, and took farmers away from the fields. March 1962 / Bridgeman Images
EVB2924575: Philip Habib, American career diplomat, May 4, 1970. He was head of the U.S. delegation to the Paris Peace Talks from 1968 to 1971. Habib was born in Bensonhurst Brooklyn to Lebanese Maronite Catholic parents. While earning a Ph.D. from Berkeley on the G.I. Bill, he was recruited into the Foreign Service in 1949. / Bridgeman Images