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Madame Chiang Kai-shek leaves San Francisco hotel

First Lady of Nationalist China, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, is bid goodbye by well-wishers as she leaves the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco on August 28, 1965 ending a five-day visit in the Bay Area. Mme Chiang Kai-shek was scheduled to depart San Francisco on the 27th for New York but due to tornado like storms in the Midwest, her departure was cancelled until tonight. (UPI Photo/Files)

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