Word: forbidden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Visit to the Forbidden City in Peking. Last banquet in the Great Hall of the People...
...Ming emperors, the center of the world between heaven and earth began in the Hall of Supreme Harmony within the red gates of the Forbidden City. Rising from a massive deep-red pedestal, the red pillars and two yellow tile roofs spread forth in gigantic yet perfect proportions. In the morning, snow falls across the Imperial Palace grounds. It is into this setting that Richard Nixon and a mob of television and still cameramen walk, making small talk and gawking. "The snow has whitewashed the world," says Yeh Chien-ying, deputy chairman of the military affairs commission of the Chinese...
...died in 113 B.C. and his wife. "Well, you wouldn't walk around in that," observes Nixon. When he notices a pair of ear stoppers used by the emperor to keep from hearing criticism, the President says: "Give me a pair of those." Nixon is in the Forbidden City, but he makes it seem as if he were still back home in San Clemente, Key Biscayne or any place else he travels...
...evening events reached the U.S. early in the morning and was repeated on the news that night. Even the President's visit to the Great Wall failed to provide the dramatic impact that might have been expected, and CBS canceled planned live coverage of his tour of the Forbidden City. "I just thought we'd had enough picture postcards." explained Richard Salant, the president of CBS News...
...find out what kind of buildings and construction methods are forbidden in the development, whether mobile homes are allowed, whether camping will be permitted and whether anyone has an easement across your land to reach a nearby road or pond...