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...military strength along China's border from 47 to 50 divisions. The Chinese also need Japanese technology to help modernize their economy. Then there is the age factor: now that Mao is pushing 79, Chou, who is 74, could be hurrying to complete Peking's return to outward-looking diplomacy while the Chairman is still around to give it his imprimatur...
Ever more self-confident, outward-looking and relaxed, China in recent months has invited dozens of foreign delegations to visit Peking. The largest was the 600-man group of Canadian businessmen, officials and journalists who were in China to stage the largest trade fair ever held hy a foreign country in Peking. Canadian External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp led a delegation to the fair's opening and journeyed through the country for ten days. With the group was TIME's National Correspondent for Canada, James Wilde, who filed these notes...
...common man; Nixon represents the age of the commonplace man." Proposing a movie based on his own life, Levant mentally cast Rosalind Russell in the title role, then decided that she was too masculine. But far too many of his remarks were self-loathing turned outward. As he once half-joked, "Ralph Edwards wanted me to be on his program, This Is Your Life, but he couldn't find one friend...
...studied at the London School of Economics, then went to work for the BBC. His heroes: "Dad, Martin Luther King and Harold Laski." Manley returned to the island in 1952, became a labor negotiator, and did not run for Parliament until 1967. Though Manley today is "looking outward" to Third World nations (including Cuba), he still has his mind set on launching Jamaica firmly into the technological age. "I think that the moment a nation becomes a nation," he says, "is the moment when it understands that to walk from here to there means that every man's foot...
...help solve a major evolutionary riddle: How did the webbed feet of the amphibians evolve from the paddle-shaped fins of their fish ancestors? Possibly his creature may be kin to a little (3-ft.-long) lizard-like amphibian called Ichthyostega, whose remains have been found in Greenland. The outward-pointing feet of Wakefield's find "demonstrate," he says, "a stage intermediate between the backward paddle of the ancestral fish and the forward-pointing foot of a four-limbed animal." To help settle that old scientific question, Wakefield is hopeful of locating an even bigger prize: a complete fossil...