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...Alexandria, Carter was met by the largest, most enthusiastic crowd of the Egyptian visit. An estimated 1 million people lined the 3½-mile drive along the Mediterranean Sea wall from the railway station to Ras el Tin Palace, where the Carters stayed. That night Sadat was host at a gala state dinner...
...songs of John Denver may be heard along the Great Wall. When the country-and-western singer performed at the Kennedy Center gala for Teng Hsiao-p'ing, he won a new fan and the Vice Premier's autograph...
...displayed a special fondness for children (she and Teng have two grandchildren), particularly Amy Carter. She held hands with Amy during the entire gala performance at the Kennedy Center, visited the Chinese pandas at the National Zoo with her, and dropped in at her sixth-grade math class. She asked that her schedule be changed so that she would have twice as much time at a children's hospital...
Crowning the Teng festivities in Washington this week is a gala entertainment at the Kennedy Center for the Vice Premier and 600 selected guests, including Washington's Government and business elite. They will view the ballet Rodeo and excerpts from the Broadway musical Eubie and hear John Denver sing his country songs. One Washington wag suggested that Teng would probably prefer a show performed exclusively by Russian defectors: Dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov and ex-Moscow Philharmonic Conductor Kiril Kondra-shin, for example...
Invitations--6400 of them--went out this week inviting the entire Harvard undergraduate body to the Student Assembly's Boston-Boston gala, set for Sunday night at the city's largest discotheque...