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...Died. Li Fu-chun, 75, Red China's master planner; in Peking. A veteran of the 6,000-mile Long March in 1934-35 with his childhood friend Mao Tse-tung, Li was named Minister of Heavy Industry after the Communists' 1949 victory. As chief of the State Planning Commission Li marshalled millions of peasants in the abortive industrial phase of the Great Leap Forward (1958-61). Both Mao and the recently hospitalized Chou En-lai attended their old comrade's funeral...
Back in 1844, social critics condemned the polka as a menace to life, limb and morality. They should have lived long enough to see the Kung Fu, the latest dance fad karateing the country. Inspired by the Oriental hand-to-hand combat form (via the weekly TV series of the same name) and a best-selling spin-off record called Kung Fu Fighting, the dance resembles a samurai samba...
...Kung Fu is essentially an Oriental successor to the Bump, which in turn was preceded on the dance floor by the Philly-Dog, the Boston Monkey, the Boogaloo, the Frug, the Roach, the Pony, the Watusi, the Mashed Potato, Jack-the-Ripper, the Fly, La Pachanga, the Dish Rag, the Slop, the Hully Gully, the Horse, the Twist and the Madison (renamed the Stomp). And before that, as exhumed by late-night World War II movies, there was Frank Sinatra jitterbugging...
...Kung Fu, anthropologists of the dance note, is in fact one of the few dances since the jitterbug in which the dervishes do have bodily contact-hand, bottom, and shoulder. Apparently invented in gay bars and black clubs, it percolated through the country, catching on in the Midwest, New York City and Southern California. The Kung Fu kick has helped, in the process, to rejuvenate many moribund nightclubs, which serve up karate music as late as 4 a.m. "It's fun and it's easy," says a 15-year-old student from Detroit, "but you have...
...cult flourished while he lived. Now it has been strengthened by his death. Bruce Lee, the Galahad of the Orient, died last year at age 32, having made a string of Kung Fu epics on the cheap in Hong Kong. At first, the Lee movies were intended for local consumption only. But a few found their way to the U.S., a TV series called Kung Fu caught on, and the martial-arts imports have grossed some $12 million at U.S. box offices...