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WITH a total area of 3.7 million square miles, China is not only larger than the U.S. but embraces at least as wide a variety of climate. There can be few more vivid ways of finding this out than to fly suddenly down from Peking to Canton in the early days of November, exchanging the brisk cold, the austere browns and russets of a northern autumn for the rich greens and the sensuous, languid heat of the tropics. The contrast is greater than moving from New England to Miami at the same time of the year. To leave Peking...
Closest to Ho, and perhaps the brightest of all his associates, was Pham Van Dong, now Premier of North Viet Nam. Son of a high-ranking mandarin, Pham was educated in Hué and Hanoi, joined Ho in Canton in 1925. The next year he was sent back to Viet Nam to organize party cells. Arrested by the French in 1930, Pham spent six years at hard labor in a penal colony, then fled to China to rejoin his leader. When Ho was jailed by the Nationalist Chinese from 1942 to 1943, Pham took over the leadership of the independence...
...whole thing far out of proportion. Says Frank Moisio, a Bridgeport, Conn., Republican: "It's a lot of malarkey; I think it's propaganda. I don't think Nixon would do a stupid thing like that -he's not that dumb." Ross Graber, a Canton, Ohio, journalist and an independent, said the President should indeed share some of the blame and responsibility for what happened. "He should know what's going on, and on something that important he should have his finger...
...Chinese offices in Hong Kong and advances through intermediaries, before getting the nod. Finally Miller tried the direct approach and spent 21? to mail a letter to the China National Machinery Import and Export Corp. in Peking. Back came an invitation for a Boeing contingent to attend the Canton trade fair in April and then go to Peking...
...Peking, something unheard of not long ago. Mao badges, Mao statues and the little Red Book of quotations are disappearing from many public places. In the past couple of months, too, Chinese have been able to wash down their noodles in the myriad noodle bars of Peking, Shanghai and Canton with draft beer, a popular practice that almost ceased during the Cultural Revolution. Most of the restaurants are packed, since for the Chinese eating and drinking are among the few entertainment alternatives to such pious homilies as the ballet The Red Detachment of Women, even when, in its latest version...