Word: canton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...children of Canton, there is still time to be young. In this city beside the Pearl River where the silvery sound of bicycle bells fills the air, the children seem less influenced by the official doctrine than by their own personalities. Some stare at foreigners in curiosity or amusement; others screech and run away. They play beside the river at being soldiers, and they imitate their mothers, carrying their younger brothers on their backs...
...does not often see families with small children on the streets of Canton. There is currently an intensive government campaign to establish birth control in this crowded city. A large billboard located strategically downtown exhorts residents in the name of patriotism to "have only one child." The official guides explain the problem thus: "We have made mistakes in the past." A family with more than two small children is now an unusual sight...
...changed. At one time, the presidential campaign was a comparatively brief quadrennial eruption. An impressively haughty 19th century protocol dictated that the office must seek the man. William McKinley, for example, a candidate of piercing eye and vacuous mind, rocked away the 1896 campaign on his front porch in Canton, Ohio, while Mark Hanna freighted in the citizenry to gaze upon...
...stay in Peking, the party visited agriculturally rich Sichuan province, where many of the current experiments in economic liberalization were first tried, then flew over the towering Hengduan Mountains to Lhasa, Tibet (average elevation: 16,000 ft. above sea level) and finally to the semitropical trading port of Canton some 3,000 miles to the southeast...
...hotel food was only marginally edible, and the 6,000-seat stadium stood virtually empty. "This," declared Eliot Teltscher, the world's tenth-ranked tennis pro, "is no way to run a tournament-in China or anywhere else." Other players at the Marlboro Grand Prix Tennis Classic in Canton, the first professional athletic competition in the People's Republic, were in a similar funk. "I didn't eat for the first two days," insisted Tennessean Terry Moor. But the most celebrated participant took it all in stride. In fact, Jimmy Connors hardly seemed to notice...