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...journalists who accompanied the U.S. table tennis team on their historic six-day trip to China last week were LIFE'S Hong Kong Bureau Chief John Saar and LIFE Photographer Frank Fischbeck. Saar's full report will appear in next week's LIFE...
...first it was like being on another planet," said Saar after he returned to Hong Kong. "For at least two days, no one was quite sure what he was seeing, and then gradually things began to fall into place and we began to see a society and a nation that was very much unified and organized-with a level of overall poverty but absolutely no misery, no hunger. My impression was of a nation very much together, very strong and reliant not on police or enforced discipline but on genuine conviction. There are no beggars, no suffering visible...
...builders, David Saar and William Carson. said that the car would average between 50 and 70 miles per hour. The car. which cost $25.000. is equipped with speed-increasing and friction-reducing devices along with the standard STP sticker on the window...
...Saar and Carson have entered the car in the second Clean Air Car Race, to be held next summer. The race, sponsored by two professors, one from M.I.T. and another from Cal Tech, will begin in Cambridge on Aug. 24 and finish in Pasadena. Calif. about seven days later. Other entries are from Cal Tech, Cornell. Toronto, and Pennsylvania...
...first race held two years ago, was a contest between an earlier battery-driven car of Saar and Carson, and an entry from Cal Tech. One-hundred miles from Pasadena. the M.I.T. car, which was leading by 24 hours, broke down and had to be towed to the finish...