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...hand pick (she chose a representative group including a Puerto Rican, a Navajo Indian, a black civil rights worker, a George Wallace convention delegate and a twelve-year-old girl), Shirley was on her way to China to visit Mme. Sun Yatsen, Teng Yingchao, wife of Chou En-lai and Chiang Ching, wife of Mao Tse-tung. Shirley also hoped to "discuss with Mao and Chou how they have managed to stay revolutionary at such an elderly age." As for Chou, "We've all decided that he's the sexiest man in the world...
Pale and unsmiling, the diminutive Mao-suited official walked into the grand banquet hall of Peking's Great Hall of the People one day last week. He paused uncertainly at the door, but protocol officials hustled him over to stand in line with Premier Chou En-lai and greet guests at a dinner honoring Cambodia's exiled Prince Norodom Sihanouk. In this low-key style, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, now 69, returned from the shadows that have enveloped him since 1966, when he was purged along with Chief of State Liu Shao...
...same day, Chou En-lai, Premier of The Peoples Republic of China, told a newsman in Peking that "if one favors justice, one must speak out on this subject...
Youngsters who have left-and some who remain-view the dispute as a matter of principle rather than grammar. In 1971 Reporter Joe Eszterhas was fired after writing an embarrassing satire for Evergreen Review on the Plain Dealer's handling of its scoop on the My Lai massacre photos. That caused ill will and became part of the continuing friction that defined itself in terms of both age and politics. Junior reporters began calling two older executives "Mad Dog" and "Snake," and were in turn referred to as "the Cong" and "the Revolutionaries." For a while management fretted over...
...three weeks ago, he underlined the importance of the post by enticing out of retirement one of the country's most distinguished diplomats, David K..E. Bruce. Last week the Chinese government reciprocated. As its first envoy to Washington, Peking chose a close associate of Premier Chou En-lai who also ranks as a full member of the Communist Central Committee. He is Huang Chen...