Word: fischbeck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they looked you right back. They seemed very content within themselves, content with their lot and sure of themselves, knowing where they are going." He also found that the much-remarked honesty in Communist China is still there. "At one point, someone came down three floors to give Fischbeck a tiny coin worth perhaps a tenth of a cent-his change from a cup of coffee." Chinese life is beset by red tape. "After a taxi ride, a driver had to give me four separate coupons and fill in a form," said Saar. "Similarly, half an hour to check...
Photographer Frank Fischbeck recalled: "Everywhere the people were warm, healthy, round-faced, rosy-cheeked, with white teeth. I could see that through the lens all the time. They were apparently very happy. When they shook your hand they crushed it. You had to applaud in greeting and just stay away from shaking hands. They seemed so happy to see foreigners. The interpreters with us said, 'We hope more people are coming.' They didn't seem to know quite what was happening or whether more people would be coming to China. We assured them that there would...
...Fischbeck agrees with the group's general view that Chou En-lai was "smooth, very handsome and quite witty." Speaking through an interpreter, Chou told the Americans at one point: "Now criticize our country." But no one would. Then Chou said: "Well, I can criticize. Those photographers over there wouldn't even let me through. I had to get somebody to push them out of the way." Everyone laughed...
...Fischbeck thinks that one central message the Chinese were putting across in their hospitality to the U.S. team was: The peoples of the world are welcome in China. All in all, he says, "it was a big, smiling campaign through a vast country at very high speed...
Opening the Door. In addition to Rich and Roderick, NBC's Tokyo Operations Manager lack Reynolds was also admitted, along with a two-man Japanese camera-sound crew. From Hong Kong, LIFE'S British-born John Saar and German-born Freelance Photographer Frank Fischbeck were given visas, as was Tillman Durdin, 64, of the New York Times, another old China hand who covered the Sino-Japanese War from Shanghai in the late 1930s and was the Times's Nanking bureau chief in 1948. Rich, Roderick and Durdin all applied for permission to open permanent bureaus in Peking...