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...Nixon keep her cool while knocking back all those 120-proof mao-tai toasts in China? Daughter Julie Eisenhower revealed the sober secret: she faked it. "Mother said she never swallowed any of that horrible Chinese liquor the whole time she was there," said Julie. To show the rest of the family what the stuff was like, the President poured some from one of the seven bottles he brought back and touched a match to it. For ten minutes the White House dining room was filled with dragon smoke...
Then amid platters of duck, sweet and sour carp, braised pork, dumplings, cabbage and mushrooms, beer and port wine, the mood softens. Toasts are offered with fiery 140-proof mao-tai, and the conversation turns to the philosophy of war and military strategy. How has Chinese nuclear strategy changed in the last three years? Keng does not reply. The nonresponse may confirm that there has been a fierce debate and struggle between those in the military who would push to produce a modern technical army with nuclear weapons and those who would follow the wisdom of Chairman Mao and retain...
...scene in Peking's Great Hall of the People last week certainly had to be one of history's great ironies. There, while a Chinese army band played America, the Beautiful, a U.S. President merrily clinked mao-tai glasses with his Chinese hosts, long considered the true "baddies" of the Communist world. Nor was it just any American President either; it was a conservative Republican who has long had a reputation as being the perfect cold warrior. The Chinese people must have been deeply startled by the change in their own leaders' attitudes, but they, after...
Warrior Arts of the Orient, a demonstration of Aikido, Iaido, Sai, Kung-Fu, Tai Chi Chuan, and the Samurai sword. John Hancock Hall...
...September, when most other N.B.A. teams were just beginning to loosen up for the coming season, Sharman was already putting his team through long punishing workouts. In the past, the Lakers' exhibition series in Hawaii had been a time to loll on the beach and sip a Mai Tai or two. This season, game or no game, Sharman hustled the team off each morning to a rickety, dimly lit high school gymnasium to sweat for three hours in the tropic heat. "I went to Hawaii with a tan," says Jerry West, "and I came home without...