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...tip-off that the President of the U.S. would get an audience came after the steamed Wuchang fish course during the big banquet held in the Great Hall of the People the night he arrived. Ford had finished his toast to the Chinese and was moving along the head tables clinking glasses. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger trailed in his wake. When they reached Mao's grandniece, Wang Hai-jung, a vice minister who arranged Kissinger's meeting with Mao in October, Kissinger leaned over to her and said: "I suppose you are going...
Portugal's immediate crisis is past, but the country must still reckon with serious problems before achieving either political or economic stability. "The people have seen only the tip of the iceberg," was the gloomy assessment of Antonio Vasco de Melo, one of the country's leading industrialists and president of the Confederation of Portuguese Industry. "The Communist Party is still in control of the big union confederation, and the Communists are still in the government. While this situation continues, there will be no investment in Portugal. The country needs confidence that there is real, practical authority...
Coach Mark Haverland certainly must have been worried during the contest's midway interlude. Before the opening tip-off, he had said he expected an easy game against what he felt to be a weak squad from Norton. Yet at half-time the teams were deadlocked...
...puzzlement must have quickly vanished at the start of the second stanza. A Wheaton guard grabbed a tip-off and swiftly drove down the court the wrong way, leaving nine startled players behind...
...Maude Wood tip-in, followed by a Marie Sullivan steal and score put the game out of reach for the homecourt hoopsters. Sullivan added two more on another breakaway steal to bring the game to its final score...