Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first steps came in midsummer of 1969 when U.S. tourists were allowed to bring $100 worth of Chinese-made goods into the U.S. At the same time, Nixon lifted the travel ban to allow Americans with a legitimate reason to visit China. The seal on the new policy was set in late summer during Nixon's visit to Rumania, where he declared that the U.S. would deal with Communist countries on the basis of their foreign policy and not their internal politics. Since the statement was delivered in a capital friendly to Peking, it was an unmistakable presidential overture...
President Nixon deserves some credit for being the first U.S. President to extend a conciliatory hand to Mao's China. He eliminated the U.S. ban on travel to China, and had the temerity to call China by its legal name. But the great chop forward was executed by the superb play of the Chinese table-tennis champions at world competition in Nagoya, Japan (see SPORT). Peking obviously saw no danger of humiliation in inviting the American team, which ranked about midway in the 54-nation field, to play exhibition matches in several Chinese cities, with all expenses paid...
...suite, and as she cleared the sheets off our beds, said, "I don't want anyone who's unhappy to stay here. I've found you a new place." And so it was that we ended up at Skytop in a nice room for three and the Crimson Travel avoided a big splash in the CRIMSON the first day back...
...Skytop, the B.U. girls in the next cottage knocked at our door at 2:30 a.m. A big spider was after them, so they needed some tough guys to go kill it. Two of us went, but Len was engaged, so he stayed. We killed it with Crimson Travel bag, and the two B. U, girls lived happily ever after...
...next day we set up Skytop stayed. We killed it with my Crimson Travel except we offered our services free. We put up ads all over the Elbow Beach Hotel announcing our tours by motorbike of "the island's finest beaches." Gas was free, as was jellyfish repellant, and we said we'd give body surfing instruction even though our timing was off by about five seconds. Maureen was the first to call, and others did later, but Skytop boss man Harry just wrote down the messages and never gave them to us. So we never gave the tours...