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...Republican Convention and the 1972 Democratic Convention, dangled $1.1 million before the Site Selection Committee and when spurned, mounted a floor fight against the committee's designation. The citizens of San Diego objected even more strenuously. The convention, which opens Aug. 21, comes at the height of the tourist season, and hotelman are not enthusiastic over the prospect of canceling reservations to make room for the delegates. Taxpayers, who voted down nine bond proposals last June, see the cost of police protection and city services during the convention as an unnecessary revenue drain. Support for the convention was rallied...
Imperialist Relic. Hotels in China's Big Three tourist cities are something less than Hiltonish. Peking's Hsin Chiao (New Sojourn) Hotel has scantily furnished but adequately comfortable rooms, most with bath, for the equivalent of $5 a day. while Shanghai's Hoping (Peace) Hotel charges roughly the same. Its rooms and general ambience are much pleasanter. to some Westerners at least, perhaps because the Hoping is a relic of imperialist days. A.P. Tokyo Correspondent John Roderick, who knew the Hoping as the Palace in 1948, found during his visit last April that it was "aging beautifully...
Wherever the tourist wanders in China, one of the China Travel Services' ubiquitous guides will be at his side. For most Westerners, help from the guides is essential: few Chinese speak English. The guides so far encountered by Statesiders have proved amiable and helpful, and their English is workable. In general, guides stick with a traveler in only one area. Once launched on the flight from Canton to Peking ($39 one way), or the 25½-hr. Canton-Shanghai express, the traveler is on his own until scooped up at his destination by another guide...
Aside from the one-upmanship values of a trip to China, the joys of China travel are largely inscrutable. There are few of the usual tourist attractions that draw the average American globetrotter. Museums, closed in the confusion of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, in many cases have yet to reopen, though Imperial Peking's excellent Palace Museum can be visited if special permission is obtained...
Nuclear Egg Rolls. Yes, there is a showdown on the high seas when the U.S. Navy intercepts Chinese whaling ships in which the missiles have been concealed like nuclear egg rolls. Salinger throws in a Mafia scheme to turn Santa Clara into a tourist trap, complete with capos still in their Godfather costumes. There is an implausible love story and even a touch of self-caricature. At his worst, Salinger is merely perfunctory, as if laboring under the realization that his "topical" novel is already eight years behind before it starts. At best, he uses his own Washington experience with...