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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the final communique, his negotiating sessions with Premier Chou En-lai were kept entirely secret so as not to jeopardize the delicate talks, as Nixon later explained to the press. No leaks escaped to upset the routine, no emotions exploded to disturb the surface tranquillity. There was no shoe pounding, no confrontation of raw power, as occurred at the Kennedy-Khrushchev meeting in Vienna. There was none of the Big Daddyism that Lyndon Johnson exhibited in 1966 at his Asian summit in the Philippines. Security was not obtrusive; crowds did not have to be controlled because they rarely gathered...
...American standards, the capital airport is almost deserted only half an hour before the President touches down. Where are Chou En-lai and the palace guard? Around, say the Chinese officials, but not in sight. Finally, from behind some buildings come the sound of troops. Rhythmic marching, hard boots, the shout of a command...
...knew of "a cat hospital where they charged $4 a weak purr." Heywood Broun, drinking a bootleg liquor, sighed, "Any port in a storm." "The groans that greet such puns," claims Milton Berle (who once joked that he had cut off his nose to spite his race), "are usually en vious. The other person wishes he had said...
...decades. Western journalists writing about China found themselves using phrases like "As Chou En-lai once told Edgar Snow . . ." or "As Mao Tse-tung recently explained to Snow . . ." Journalist-Author Snow not only had unique access to Peking and a lifetime of expertise but also a personal friendship with Mao dating back to the 1930s. Last year Mao's American friend could relate reliably in LIFE that the Chairman would welcome a visit by Richard Nixon "either as a tourist or as President...
However two superb efforts by Penn's Pat Gallagher and Ted Kreibel, both swimming legs well under 48.0 seconds, were not enough, as Harvard swam its best relay of the year, en route to its most impressive victory of the season...