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...Peking, is still not operating. But in the streets swarms of people, carts and children are building, hauling -and resolutely following the Maoist line. On the way to a commune on the outskirts of the city, I passed the new Nanking Iron and Steel Works, four-story red-brick apartment blocks near completion, and a whole series of water-conservation projects. Teams of men sang as they hefted a huge stone with ropes and tamped the earth into place. Women with bamboo baskets on yokes carried earth to build retaining walls. Schoolchildren with shovels marched in line...
...translates the passing signs: "Long live the great Chinese Communist Party," "Long live the great leader Chairman Mao." The cars go past workers' dormitories. Never are there more than two or three people along the roadside. The caravan passes the foreign diplomatic quarters, a ghetto with red brick apartment houses. A few foreigners are looking out from their balconies and taking pictures...
...Premier arrives on the dot of 2 p.m. and is greeted by Nixon, who has been waiting outside the guesthouse where he is staying-a two-story buff brick abode filled with overstuffed chairs, paintings of public works projects and calligraphy by Mao. The pair walk quickly into the first-floor conference room and sit opposite each other at a long table covered with green. As the photographers jostle each other, clicking away, Chou laughs and says: "You must take more pictures of your President." Nixon apparently doesn't get the subtle humor or maybe he does. "Pictures...
...looking for material and talent to carry the Cabaret through its initial Spring season. Next weekend will have a musical retrospective with piano and clarinet on the work of Cole Porter. Between shows there will be music and, if a way is found to transcend Currier House's nouveau-brick decor, atmosphere. The Cabaret hopes to support itself by its cooking--the preliminary menu includes hot and cold drinks, chocolate mousse, baklava, eclairs and pastries. With no admission charge, only the most miserly socialite could begrudge the measly fifty-cent food minimum...
...shared hardships and sense of common injustice has bred an intense loyalty among the miners, even if they blame their union in part for letting their numbers, and their wages, decline. The miners live in tight communities of grimy, brick, colliery-owned apartments, which only recently were provided with indoor plumbing. The workers have their own traditions and brass bands, their own pneumoconiosis clinics-and a common dedication to left-wing politics. But never before have they been able to force their will upon the nation. When the men first threatened to strike, said Tom Nicholson, the secretary...