Word: archfiend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protest against the use of the term "Hong Kong" flu [Jan. 31]. The crown colony was the first victim, not the originator, of the epidemic. The virus was clearly manufactured in the secret mainland laboratories of China, probably under the malevolent supervision of Sax Rohmer's archfiend, the Devil Doctor himself...
Doctor No himself is a Chinese archfiend with black contact lenses and artificial hands who won his spurs in the Shanghai tong wars, and as a charter member of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. (Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terror, Revenge and Extortion) he is almost a match for James Bond. His island off Jamaica is well appointed with hatchetmen, a nuclear reactor and Goya's missing portrait of the Duke of Wellington. As agent 007, one of three with the double cipher indicating authority to kill, James Bond is a combination of Sam Spade, Baby Pignatari and Jungle Jim. Sporting with him in Jamaica...