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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nikita Khrushchev came calling in 1959. Showing few signs of his 74 years, Teng rushed through a formidable schedule of official and semiofficial events. He talked for 5½ hours with Carter, dined at the White House, lunched with Senators and U.S. reporters, sampled American culture at the Kennedy Center and barnstormed across the country, getting a firsthand look along the way at American enterprise: a Ford plant near...
Atlanta, the Johnson Space Center in Houston, a Boeing plant outside Seattle...
After dinner the festivities continued at the Kennedy Center, with an hour-long variety show that included excerpts from the Broadway musical Eubie, the Jeffrey...
...displayed a special fondness for children (she and Teng have two grandchildren), particularly Amy Carter. She held hands with Amy during the entire gala performance at the Kennedy Center, visited the Chinese pandas at the National Zoo with her, and dropped in at her sixth-grade math class. She asked that her schedule be changed so that she would have twice as much time at a children's hospital...
...White House Science Adviser Frank Press on future Chinese-American projects, Fang left for Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology. There he inspected the Landsat photographs surveying natural resources and a solar-energy farm that can produce 400 kw of electricity. In Houston, he visited the Texas Medical Center, M.D. Anderson Hospital and Methodist Hospital. But the highlight of Fang's U.S. trip was Los Angeles. Fang was given a detailed tour of Lockheed's L-1011 assembly plant at nearby Palmdale and shown the company's closely guarded research laboratory at Rye Canyon...