A lifetime later, the show still goes on

Berris performing the sword dance when the Chinese Martial Arts Team visited the US in 1974. Looking back on that "freezing cold night in Chicago", Berris said most of the audience chose to stay instead of going home and having their ticket money refunded. She became so fond of every one on the Chinese table tennis team she had traveled with in 1972 that when it was time to say good-bye, amid a great swarm of reporters, she found herself trying to fight back tears-in vain. "The next year when I visited China, people would come up to me and ask: 'Are you that crying girl?'"