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Everywhere the Chinese appeared there was a horde of paparazzi-like newsmen. Reporters peered over the delegates' shoulders as they breakfasted on omelets and lunched on breast of chicken. They even checked the luncheon tips with waitresses (a precise 15%). After paying their first breakfast tab with a $100 bill, the Chinese began signing for everything. Through it all, the delegates managed resigned smiles and noncommittal answers. One mission member, noting the crowd of newsmen, said to TIME'S Mandarin-speaking David Aikman: "You can't avoid them...
Then Crouthamel went back to Hanover, ranting and claiming he would send game films to a Tuesday Boston writers' luncheon as proof of his accusations...
With "a clear conscience," Restic decided to show the game films himself at Tuesday's luncheon...
Although Crouthamel said Saturday that Jack DeGange, Dartmouth's Director of Sports Publicity, would bring films down to Boston for a writers luncheon this week, he said last night that he did not intend to show the films publicly because "by doing that I would be pointing out an individual...
...sharp contrast to the unobtrusive ways of his predecessor. Career Diplomat Charles Yost. Bush swings through the delegates' dining room slapping backs and greeting ambassadors by their first names as if he were still prowling the back corridors of Congress. He has replaced the standard U.N. luncheon-two hours, three wines, seven courses-with short working sessions in the U.S. mission on Manhattan's First Avenue, where guests sometimes must balance plates on their knees. Bush has invited several of his fellow ambassadors to his summer home in Maine for weekends of tennis, boating, barbecues and tall tales...