Word: cantonal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Journeys by presidential assistants and reporters notwithstanding, it will still be some time before sweating, camera-clutching hordes of American tourists start shuttling across the Hong Kong border to begin the already standard Canton-Shanghai-Peking run. But the prospects for future tours are mind-bending: "Swim the Yangtze in Chairman Mao's wake," for example; or perhaps "Join the Harvest at the Sino-Albanian Friendship Commune." For the present, however, the few Americans allowed into China in the sneakered steps of the U.S. table tennis team have accumulated sufficient experiences to allow construction of a half-Baedeker...
...Canton's Tung Fang (East Wind) Hotel, however, stands in unhappy contrast. Wall Street Journal Reporter Robert Keatley found it "dark and dingy . . . perhaps China's worst," and Timesman Tillman Durdin recalls "the foul, surly service we got in Canton, perhaps because the hotel was overtaxed then by trade-fair visitors...
...regime has raised wages an average 17% since the Cultural Revolution, but now mining and railway workers are agitating for even more. Last month postal workers in Canton appealed, unsuccessfully, for higher pay. Money is not the only sugar-coated bullet either. Mao favors those good gray (or blue) unisex styles, but rare is the young Chinese girl who does not have a fancy embroidered-silk jacket or a flowered dress tucked away somewhere. Sex is supposed to follow marriage but, as a Swede who frequently visits China pointed out, "If you walk around in the parks in the summer...
...cities together with infrequent service, but offers only four international flights a week. China's only other air links to the outside world are a once-a-week Air France flight from Shanghai to Paris, Pakistan International's two flights a week from Karachi to Shanghai and Canton, and scheduled Aeroflot service between Moscow and Peking. Two U.S. airlines-American and United ("Fly the Friendly Skies . . .")-have recently applied to the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to serve China. Three others-Pan Am, TWA and Northwest-have long had CAB approval, but still face the Chinese...
...invited China to send athletes to the Hoi-yoke, Mass., Marathon on June 6. Chinese competitors were asked to join in everything from the U.S. Open tennis championships to the Miss Universe contest. United Air Lines, somewhat precipitously, applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to fly to Canton, Shanghai and Peking...