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...Mao Tse Tung once remarked that it takes an intellectual ten years to rejoin the people, but I suppose the time estimate for students would be much shorter. Only yesterday we arrived here children fresh from suburban hothouses, living contradictions cast up by a society which was twisting us as much as those we were being trained to rule. For all God's dangers, our critique of a "Harvard education" will spring again and again from our struggle to become "ordinary" in the most profound sense of the term...
...given Richard Nixon in his historic 1972 visit. U.S. TV technicians have already started work on installations in China for live transmissions. Ford's mornings will be for sightseeing at such likely sites as the Forbidden City and the Great Wall; afternoons will be for meetings, probably with Mao Tse-tung among others, as both sides size each other...
...because of a crisis in their leadership. Moderate forces appear to retain the control that Premier Chou En-lai engineered for them at the National People's Congress early this year (TIME cover, Feb. 3). But Chou himself, 77, has been hospitalized since May with heart disease. Chairman Mao is semiretired. He is still mentally alert at meetings with foreigners, but his thick Hunanese accent has been made more impenetrable by a speech defect. Even his interpreters must double-check with him to be sure of what he is saying...
...gave a seat to the People's Republic, Bloomingdale's opened its "China Passage" shop. The timing helped to make the shop an immediate hit. Woven rattan baskets, bamboo ladders and other simple items sold well. Bloomingdale's customers snapped up 4,000 blue cotton Mao suit−despite warnings that the wearers might turn blue since the dye was not fast...
From there on out, the propaganda intensified, as the card-carrying faithful created an oversize portrait of Chairman Mao, a blockbuster mural of Chinese industrial development and pictorial tributes to China's performing arts, medical services (including a flash-card diagram showing acupuncture of an ear) and table tennis, the nation's No. 1 sport. After the mass-performance art, the games could have seemed anticlimactic. But since China is making a concerted bid to participate in next summer's Olympics in Montreal, the National Games became unofficial Olympic trials. At least three world marks for pistol...