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Inevitably they strike Western visitors as robotlike. In Canton's main park 3,000 Communist youth at a signal begin wildly cheering a Western businessman, and at another signal, just as obediently, they stop. People seem terrified to accept even the smallest gift from foreigners, evidently for fear of being tabbed as spies. Visiting coeducational Sian University, a French Deputy asks a question natural to any Frenchman: "Does the proximity of 5,000 boys and 2,000 girls pose any problems?" There are puzzled stares, and the rector replies: "What sort of problems?" The French visitor: "Sexual problems...
...some city theorists, Bacon does not try to talk the automobile out of existence. "The automobile must be treated as an honored guest," says Bacon. But he does feel that the entrance to the city must be attractive, and the vistas must be visually exciting, designed to lead the visitor into the heart of the city. He cites the expansion of the spirit that any walker experiences in Venice, emerging from the crowded alleyways into the huge open space of St. Mark's Square. It is these shared experiences, says Bacon, that give citizens a sense of belonging...
Thus, some time between the moment his French visitor saw Khrushchev's exit from his Black Sea home and the time Tass announced the news of his removal, Communism's most raucous, most human, most infuriating, and in many ways most fascinating dictator had been deposed and replaced by two of his underlings...
Here and there, the news deluge elevated a few newsroom temperatures to fever degree. "For a while," said Atlanta Constitution Managing Editor Bill Field, "it looked like the whole world was going to hell." And there were, of course, inevitable dislocations. The Denver Post, which had treated Recent Visitor Lyndon Johnson to a Page One portrait in color, decided to do the same for Barry Goldwater, and planned on having an appropriate banner headline. Only Barry's picture survived. The banner went to another sort of politician altogether: RUSS "RETIRE" KHRUSHCHEV...
...cross-over point a visitor must fill out forms stating the amount of currency taken over. (The exchange rate of East German marks for West German marks at the border is 1:1, while East German marks may be bought at any bank in West Berlin for about a third of this rate.) He may be selected for fairly through questioning and searching...