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...player explained that relations between team members and Harrison grew so strained that Harrison made only a brief appearance at the team's banquet...
SINO-AMERICAN CONTACTS. Taking presidential rhetoric perhaps too seriously, Brezhnev is worried that the U.S. and China may have made a secret pact that went beyond the bilateral bounds of the Sino-American communique. "How else can one interpret the statement at the Shanghai banquet that 'today our two peoples hold in their hands the fate of the future of the entire world'?" he said. But Brezhnev undoubtedly wants to talk to Nixon about his China trip before jumping to any hasty conclusions. "We are in no hurry with final assessments," he declared...
...Crimson will formally close its 71-72 season Monday night in a team banquet at the varsity club. In September, Harvard had dreamed of celebrating its first Ivy title this spring, but injuries and close defeats resulted in a disappointing 8-5-2 record...
...Nixon and Kissinger were struck by Chou's toughness and assurance as a bargainer as well as by his mastery of detail-when it served the Premier's purpose. He was well-briefed on the facts of Nixon's life, for instance. At a banquet in Shanghai, he studied the menu to make sure that changes he had ordered had been made. Chou may, in fact, have been a little too attentive to detail. After American reporters discovered that the well-dressed, cheerful Chinese milling about the Ming tombs with transistor radios had been planted there...
...thrill of discovery quickly wore off. TV crews and reporters were soon scurrying frantically to satisfy the medium's insatiable appetite for novelty, sometimes achieving massive inanity instead. During coverage of the first great banquet, correspondents-who had not been given menus-variously described those little orange balls decorating the table's center as pomegranates, oranges or JellO. (They were actually North China tangerines...