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...American Vice Presidents, John Nance Garner in 1935 and Henry Wallace in 1944, made trips to China during their terms in office. Ulysses S. Grant toured Peking, Shanghai and Canton in 1879, two years after he had left the presidency. But no incumbent U.S. President has ever set foot on Chinese soil. This time, the whole world will watch on the tube the beginning of a new era in Sino-American relations -and a triumph for Richard Nixon...
...Canton... The large provincial teachers' college outside Canton witnessed serious student Red Guard clashes four years ago during the days of Cultural Revolution. Today every trace of those tumultuous years has been assiduously repaired. The lovely kilometer-square campus of spacious groves, fields and ponds is quiet, bucolic and rather sleepy. Appropriate to the gentle pastoral setting, it was the radical student faction which lost out in 1967. The army of Gen. Huang Yung-sheng, Lin Piao's closest associate, intervened province wide on the side of law-and-order and Party control...
...Zurich to open the account. The more pertinent question: Was whoever opened it acting for Hughes, or for someone else? Even before last week, LIFE and McGraw-Hill had been troubled by some of the circumstances surrounding the account. At McGraw-Hill's behest, officials for the canton of Zurich were investigating the matter, and last week that investigation and others turned up some curious information...
Died. Chen Yi, 71, Chinese Foreign Minister since 1958 and longtime intimate of Mao Tse-tung; of intestinal cancer; in Peking. Like Chiang Kaishek. Chen honed his formidable military talents at Canton's Whampoa Military Academy. He then joined Chiang's famed 1926 Northern Expedition to defeat the warlords and reunify China. After the split between the Kuomintang and the Communists the following year, Chen excelled as Mao's kuai-tsu-shou (hatchet man). He led Mao's rear guard during the Long March, and commanded the New Fourth Army in its fight against the Japanese...
When her husband became irritated by her questions, she started to read up on the game. Eventually she even made a research trip to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. This fall Triton agreed to sponsor the course-if she could round up a dozen students...