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...rearguard in Mao Tse-tung's Long March in 1934, is one of Chinese Communism's elder statesmen. Predictably, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was at hand at the airport as Chen's Tu-104 jet touched down. While Chen was posing at one ramp with Gromyko, so many grey-clad figures scampered out of the rear of the plane and off the field that not even the Swiss got a head count. The total Chinese delegation was thought to top 200. Chen Yi took up residence in a secluded villa, and the rest of his troupe...
...trip had all the trappings of a state visit, all the secrecy of a Communist plot. At Pnompenh airport, Ambassador Abramov and Chinese Communist Ambassador Wang Yu-ping huddled about the ramp of the twin-engined Ilyushin-14 warned that the plane would have to fly "very high" and be blacked out. Reason: "U.S. jets" might try to shoot it down. At Hanoi that night. North Viet Nam Premier Pham Van Dong turned out at the runway with a cluster of pretty little girls bearing flowers, then drove Prince Souvanna off to the state guesthouse in a long cortege...
...Sullivan proposal, a 15 story office building on stilts, would have perhaps two stories of ramp-type parking and an MTA bus terminal on the ground and subground levels. Inherent in the plans is a transfer of heavy MTA traffic from the kiosk to the site over the present trackless trolley entrance and exit on the northern edge of the Square, technically part of the Cambridge Common...
Cambridge is indeed indebted to Uncle Dudley of the Globe for his witty, if uninformative editorial of January 23 concerning the proposal for an office building over the Harvard Square subway ramp...
...proposed structure would fit into the University's overall parking scheme and would probably house cars of employees, staff, and faculty, as well as students. Perhaps a four-story ramp garage with parking both on the roof and below ground, it would probably include service station facilities on the ground floor run by the present operators...