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...most telling hint to date that Chou has either stepped or been pushed into the background came earlier this month when he failed to attend a banquet in his honor given by visiting Senegalese President Leopold Senghor at the Great Hall of the People in Peking. It was the first time that Chou has been known to miss a scheduled public appearance...
...Secretary of Transportation John Volpe visited St. Louis on another matter. Polizzi requested a meeting and pressed for the overpass in the same, formal Italian that Volpe had learned back home in Massachusetts. Joe Garagiola began dropping hints that he might not be available any more on the Republican banquet circuit unless the Hill got its overpass. Finally Polizzi led a Hill delegation to Washington with a check for $50,000, raised by the residents themselves, to pay for the overpass. The Hill got its bridge, and the bells of St. Ambrose rang out the good news...
Since the Peking summit of 1972, Chinese leaders have notably muted their anti-American diatribes. But at a banquet last week for General Khieu Samphan, commander of the insurgent Communist forces in Cambodia, Premier Chou En-lai lashed out at the U.S. for having "brazenly made a massive invasion into Cambodia." In an oblique reference to Richard Nixon, Chou contemptuously dismissed the President's oft-stated goals for détente with the comment: "The revolutionary people do not all believe in a so-called lasting peace' or a 'generation of peace.' So long as imperialism...
...College Basketball Officials Association has chosen Harvard as the recipient of its annual Schoenfeld Award for Sportsmanship, Sanders announced last night at the team's 1973-74 awards banquet...
...banquet following Biello's selection the coaching staff presented Blakinger with the Ames Trophy for the most outstanding wrestler to place in the Easterns this year, finishing second...