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...Canton, Ohio...
...several who were planning to visit China, and some who had actually been there. Of the latter group, the Fairbanks chose five who could give accounts of their dealings with the Chinese. One was Lee Sobin, general manager of Friendship International Inc., and a three-time visitor of the Canton fair trade; another was Emile Chi who was interested in how Chinese Universities handled students from low-income families. They provided the closest thing to 'Let's go China' for the many there wishing to go. On the whole the reasons for going to A.C. were varied: there were those...
Also: Seth P. Waxman of Quincy House and West Hartford, Conn.; Mark J. Welshimer of Leverett House and Canton, Ohio; Jeremy A. Whipple of Lowell House and Marblehead; and, Michael C. Zaslow of Mather House and Broomall...
...remarked David K.E. Bruce as he crossed from Hong Kong into China last week, a "very intriguing" assignment. That said, the 75-year-old veteran diplomat, who had previously served as ambassador to Paris, London and Bonn, flew on to Peking from Canton in a Chinese Trident jet to begin his new chores as chief of the U.S. Liaison Office to the People's Republic of China. There, for the first time since Nixon's visit, an American flag was raised, signaling the official establishment of formal relations between the U.S. and China after a lapse...
...doorways for the elevators; some of the more vigorous bounded up stairways in an attempt to get ahead of the crowd. It was not a rush for cut-rate panty hose at a discount house; rather, it was the scene at this spring's version of the semiannual Canton Trade Fair, where Chinese traders showed off their wares to the largest collection of foreign businessmen ever. And it was a bust: the eager foreigners found far more high prices than bargains...