Word: tsingtao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sihanouk. "Thank you very much." Then, after a two-hour bus tour of the capital, the men were treated to lunch at La Taverne, one of the city's finest French restaurants. (Among the highlights was their first taste of beer since July 17-a Chinese brew called Tsingtao.) That afternoon, they watched a four-hour pageant as the Prince's guests, and as a special bonus Sihanouk later sent them two cases of Cambodian liquor...
...tung's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution has produced the greatest proletarian traffic jam in history. From Tibet to Tsingtao, the roads, rails and airlines of Red China are jammed with Chinese on the move. Most are Red Guards heading to and from Peking to spread the word of the leader's glory. Their road map-passed out on trains, sung on airliners-is a cheap (about 25?), red, plastic-bound copy of Mao's Thought. So massive is the movement that the government has begun to drop a hint to the faithful: get out and walk...
...when Communist China built its biggest freighter, the 11,182-ton ship was christened-naturally-Yueh Chin, or the S.S. Leap Forward. With almost as much fanfare as when she was launched, the Leap Forward sailed from Tsingtao last week with the first cargo shipped from China to Japan since the two countries signed a recent trade agreement ending their five-year official boycott of each other's goods. Then, half way across the East China Sea one afternoon last week, the Leap Forward suddenly radioed for help. Four hours later, the pride of China's merchant fleet...
...idea of hostile attack, announcing only that the government was "attaching great importance" to the sinking. The tone of the broadcast suggested that whatever face the skipper had saved in Japan with his torpedo tale would be quickly dissipated once he came back to face the music in Tsingtao...