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Marcos could hardly have fitted Peking's script better. He gave a banquet speech full of effusive praise for China, labeling it "the leader of the Third World and a moral inspiration to all the world and mankind." Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, who represented Premier Chou En-lai at the formal banquet, responded with more restraint, commenting simply on the Philippines as "a beautiful and richly endowed country" whose people were "industrious and valiant." Teng wasted no time in getting to China's chief international concern; in his final address he noted that both China...
...minimize the influence of Moscow, which Peking seems to regard as the big winner in the Communist victory in Indochina, they have been making some unprecedented gestures toward the big loser, the U.S. Two weeks ago, Huang Chen, chief of the Chinese liaison office in Washington, gave a sumptuous banquet for Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and several other liberal Democratic Senators. With unusual directness, the Chinese ambassador told the legislators that he thought the U.S. should retain a strong military posture in the world to guard against the Soviet menace...
...Miss U.S.A., I would have become a counselor for the Girl Scouts this summer," said Summer Bartholomew, 23, sounding like any old girl-next-door. After collecting this year's Miss U.S.A. crown at Niagara Falls, however, the Merced, Calif., beauty has forsaken the scouting life for the banquet circuit and a shot at the Miss Universe title in San Salvador in a month. On her first-ever visit to New York City, Summer talked about her victory ("My first thought was to thank the Lord") and her recent trip to Niagara Falls ("That's where my honeymoon...
...China, last week, impressed in spite of themselves because the Chinese fans seemed to really mean it about friendship, not competition, but dubious deep down inside--"Americans like to win," one runner told reporters firmly, as though it was an indictment of the Chinese. (Then at the final banquet half the team got drunk and walked on tables--the Chinese were polite about it.) But the Bostonian reaction has different nuances, because the Yankees' whole dignified tradition depended on half a century of winning, even if that seemed gone forever for a while. The Boston fans were angry with...
Coach Bill McCurdy commended the thinclads at the banquet for their improvement during the season. The trackmen won their last four meets to finish with a 4-2 record for the outdoor season...