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...years, assuming it a futile exercise. One of the few to renew their visa requests was NBC's John Rich, who left Shanghai just ahead of Mao's forces in 1949, and has been China watching from Tokyo since 1962. Rich sent off what he called his "umpteenth cable," routinely requesting permission to enter China. Associated Press Tokyo Bureau Chief Henry Hartzenbusch did the same on behalf of John Roderick, who interviewed Mao when he was a guerrilla fighter in Northern China during the 1940s, and has been the A.P.'s chief China watcher in Tokyo since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Parting the Bamboo Curtain | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

...Kanuth--for the umpteenth time this year--was matched against a giant. But playing his rugged, pushing defense Kanuth held the 6-9 John Winston to 10 points, many of them late in the game...

Author: By Richard D. Paisner, | Title: Hoopsters Upset Blues In Final Home Contest | 3/4/1968 | See Source »

Princeton edged Yale at New Haven Saturday after handing Brown its umpteenth straight loss Friday night. Both teams are now tied with only one loss and their upcoming confrontation is already sold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lions, Tigers Outpace Ivy League Cage Teams | 2/21/1968 | See Source »

...Harvard Track team's hard core flies to Philadelphia today to take part in the umpteenth annual menagerie known as the Penn Relays. Fast-developing hurdler Frank Haggerty and a trio of quarters will be wearing the Crimson in Franklin Field before the massacre of Dartmouth's team here tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Favored In Penn Relays | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

Last session, for the umpteenth time, a bill granting home rule to the District of Columbia failed to reach a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. President Johnson has now decided to try a new approach. He proposes to reshuffle the present organization of the District into a proto-mayor-council government, using his authority under the Reorganization...

Author: By Barbara J. Fields, | Title: D.C. Rule | 3/21/1967 | See Source »

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