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THERE is a kaleidoscopic quality about the events and the trip," White House Correspondent Jerrold Schecter cabled from Peking last week. "Each moment fixed, then whirling on to a new sensation. This has been a week of sights and sounds...
...Schecter, Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey and TIME-LIFE Photographer John Dominis, capturing the sights and sounds of President Nixon's visit to China last week meant exhausting 18-hour days of reporting. Each day Sidey and Schecter followed the President and Mrs. Nixon through their busy official schedule. When the First Family paused occasionally to catch its breath, our reporters traveled to Chinese schools, factories and army training fields to capture the quality of life in a country few U.S. journalists have seen in more than two decades...
After equipping Schecter and Sidey with cameras, he instigated a special airlift to get pictures of the trip off the mainland, and by Thursday night the first 150 rolls of film had been flown into Chicago. There Durniak, Color Director Arnold Drapkin, Artist Anthony Libardi and a crew of photolab technicians worked nonstop for the next 38 hours. Meanwhile TIME writers and editors in New York were poring over the Sidey-Schecter files for this week's cover story and articles in THE NATION and THE PRESS. The result: a hard-won look into a long-hidden China...
...promise of cultural exchanges (beginning with permission to let TIME'S Jerrold Schecter and Syndicated Columnist Joseph Kraft stay on for a while longer in China), trade and diplomatic contact created a mechanism that could produce further and future agreements. And there is always the possibility that there is more to the talks in China than meets the eye in this communiqué. A beaming Kissinger insisted that the U.S. was very pleased: "It exceeded our expectations." That may well be so, but expectations tend to be in the eye of the beholder, and for some, the Shanghai communiqu...
ACCOMPANYING the President to China for TIME were Washington Bureau Chief Hugh Sidey and White House Correspondent Jerrold Schecter. Herewith, excerpted from their notebooks, their day-by-day impressions and perceptions of Nixon's China odyssey...