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Nixon's huge presidential party reached Peking at 11:30 a.m. on Monday, Feb. 21, 1972. Nixon, Kissinger and most of their staffs were quartered in a large guesthouse near the old Imperial Fishing Lake, Secretary of State William Rogers and his entourage in a smaller one a few hundred...
Mao Tse-tung, the ruler whose life had been dedicated to overturning the values, the structure, and the appearance of traditional China, lived in fact in the Imperial City, as withdrawn and mysterious even as the emperors he disdained. Nobody ever had a scheduled appointment; one was admitted to a...
By the 1600s, Venice, once the amazement of the world and the ruler of a considerable part of it, was starting the long decline into the salty tourist trap the city is today. For almost 200 years, starting with the capture of Constantinople in 1453, the Turks had been snapping...
The orange roofs and the Simple Simon weather vanes above them always seemed as American as, well, an 85? slice of Ho Jo's apple pie. But now the Boston-based Howard Johnson chain of restaurants and motor lodges is going British, at least in terms of ownership. Chairman...
Imperial, which is Britain's sixth largest corporation, with earnings of $276.5 million on sales of $7.71 billion in the past fiscal year, first flourished in tobacco and now operates 5,500 pubs and 30 hotels. It has long been seeking a sizable U.S.beachhead. Buying one is relatively painless...