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Chinese Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua set his chopsticks beside his bowl of shark's fin and crab meat. Then he rose and made a toast. "The stark reality is not that détente has developed to a new stage, but that the danger of a new world war is mounting," Chiao told 300 listeners in Peking's Great Hall of the People. "To base oneself on illusions will only abet the ambitions of expansionists and lead to grave consequences. In the face of the growing danger of war, China's fundamental policy...
Later the couple flew to Chicago, where the Emperor raised a toast to Mayor Richard J. Daley (for his "remarkable achievements" in government) and, on a side trip, inspected a 2,500-acre corn and soybean farm near Joliet...
...project itself were now finished. One of Garrett's friends, Donald Larsen, 37, assistant director of a similar vocational-training project in Eureka, applied to replace him at Gateway. The staffers got together to give the new director a welcoming party. As they were raising their glasses to toast the end of their troubles, smoke drifted over the nearby swimming pool. When they ran out to look, they found two of their cars burning fiercely...
...stationary bicycle and regular workouts on a handball or squash court. Morehouse, who developed simple "cabin exercises" for the Navy and the astronauts, offers a "no-sweat" alternative. He believes that people can lose weight and keep it off simply by "saying no to an extra piece of toast in the morning and an extra ounce of Scotch at night." He maintains that people can get into good condition and stay there by exercising as little as 30 minutes a week. "We've confused exercise with athletes," says Morehouse, a firm, flat-bellied 62. "You don't have...
...Calvin Coolidge, the champion of small spending and small Government, is the warmed-over toast of Washington's summer season. At dinner parties, his pithy sayings ("The business of America is business") are served up as wisdom for this time. Around July 4, television and newspaper commentators noted rather affectionately that it was Cal's birthday (1872) and we might well take a lesson from his penny-pinching. That is quite a comeback for a man whose previous pinnacle of acclaim came when Writer Dorothy Parker, on being told he was dead, asked: "How can they tell...