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...accompany the Americans. The visitors were taken by Chinese escorts in Chinese limousines for the ten-minute drive to the plain, yellowish home of the Chairman. Ford's car was driven into a carpeted portico. The Americans walked down a long hallway where Mao's famous Ping Pong table stands. Part way down the hall, the party was directed left into Mao's study. He was sitting in a light green overstuffed chair. A nurse helped the 81-year-old Mao stand up and he greeted the Ford family first. He was dressed in a blue-gray...
...center of a semicircle of chairs and was helped back down by his nurse. Those who remained for the business meetings were directed to the proper chairs. On Mao's right was his interpreter, American-born Nancy Tang; next on the right was Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, who chain-smoked through the meeting. The other Chinese were on Teng's right...
...that signal, his guests got up, the nurse helped Mao to his feet and the Americans started to leave, after shaking hands. But one of the Chinese halted them. "The Chairman wants to walk you to the door," he said. Mao and Ford went into the hall with the Ping Pong table and on out to the front door. In that singular house in that faraway land, it was a special gesture by this living legend...
There are also Faculty members who take a less rigorous approach to sports. Karl E. Case, head tutor in Economics, expressed an interest in squash and tennis along with "shooting pool and ping-pong." When queried as to whether release of tension was a motive for his athletic interests, Case replied, "No--to relieve tension, I drink...
...Significant" was a word never far from Gerald Ford's lips during his five-day visit to Peking. He used it to characterize his long conversation with Chairman Mao Tse-tung. He unfurled it again to describe his three morning sessions with Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, the tough Pekingese who is acting operational head of the Chinese government. And finally, in his last champagne toast, Ford declared that the whole visit had been "significant," adding that his talks with the Chinese leaders had been "friendly, candid, substantial and constructive." It was as if the President constantly...