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...ingredient called "Quantro." (Like that old familiar red wine, Bojolay.) Worse still, they counsel the reader--and also, it seems, the hapless bartender at Charlie's--on "Mai Tai's." "In point of fact," confide the knowing Dake and Decherd, "it is the drink which President Nixon shared with Chou En-Lai in Peking last February." They should have added that Pat Nixon wore a hula skirt while Mrs. Mao Tse-tung dished out poi at the Peking People's Luau...
...American travel agent, Thomas M. Keesling, asked when China might be opened up to tourists. "Have you met our travel service people?" asked Chou. Moments later, Yang Kung-su, director of the China International Travel Service, was delivered to the table. Chou then told both Keesling and Director Yang that he would like to see a greater exchange of people and that Keesling could come back to China to work on this whenever he wanted. Then the questions started again...
...have Chiang Kai-shek's representatives in the U.S.," said Chou. "Once you realize that Taiwan is a province of China, that will solve everything...
...Premier continued to table-hop. At every table Chou would carefully clink his glass of Mao Tai, which he barely sipped, against the glass of each guest. One very striking young Ethiopian woman started to pull back her glass, reminding the Premier that he had already toasted her at another table. Chou's eyes stayed right on the beautiful lady and his glass kept moving forward until it clinked hers...
Lest skeptics complain that such analyses are the product of overactive imaginations, Sinologists relate a revealing vignette from President Nixon's visit to Peking. After the banquet in the Great Hall of the People, Premier Chou En-lai went off to a corner. There he was shown the People's Daily front-page layout of pictures of the Nixon trip. That historic issue went to press only after Chou-the world's most famous part-time editor-approved...