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...CANTON every year, when the flies disappear from the halls of the Dongfang Hotel and the humidity begins to subside, the People's Republic of China opens her doors to foreign businessmen for the annual trade fair. In the city's great exposition hall, German, Japanese, British and American dealers come to push their wares, examine Chinese products and take advantage of a little bit of foreign hospitality...
Other scholars are not so sure. USGS Mineralogist Ching Chang Woo, who was born in Canton, tried to date the messenger stone from its mineral crust, but could not do so because the sea deposits such materials at varying rates. Former U.C.L.A. Archaeologist William Clewlow allows that the stones are "enticing bits of evidence," but "just aren't conclusive...
...were "hopelessly overcooked." The egg roll "oozed grease." The spareribs were "dreadful," the dim sum were "stale," the sesame beef roll "stiff and cold." As for the chrysanthemum tea, it "could easily have been matched with water in which artichokes had been cooked." Ow! as they might say in Canton...
...they also might say in Canton, and elsewhere, Honor Is All. Kwong and Mary Ann Lum, the Canton-born owners of Dish of Salt, came back with chopsticks flying. For $1,200 they placed an ad adjacent to Sheraton's "Restaurants" column in the Times last week, claiming that they had been subjected to "a most malicious attack." Terming her critique "wise-guy," "sadistic," "prejudiced" and "misleading," the owners threatened: "We intend to hold you accountable for your cruelty, your malevolence and your viciousness." The Lums also claimed that Sheraton had only visited their restaurant once, not several times...
Across the nation, the worsening inflation and the Administration's inability to deal with it have caused widespread dismay. "It has been six or eight months since I've taken my wife to a restaurant," grumbles John Conroy, an accountant in Canton, Mass. David Traver, a student and part-time department-store clerk in Atlanta, cannot replace a car that blew its engine and could not be repaired. Says he: "When I was 19, I could afford to buy a new car. Now I'm 26 and I can't afford to buy a used...