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Chief instructor and Founder Harvard Shao Lin Kung Fu Club...
...mainly by knifing into such delicate surgical issues as embryo transplants and lobotomy. The lobotomy episode will also depict that rarity on TV medical shows: a crooked doctor. No new adventure hero, it seems, will be admitted to the schedule without an ethnic identity badge. ABC'S Kung Fu is a sort of Fugitive foo yung-a Chinese priest permanently on the lam in the American West of the 1870s, nonviolent but ready to zap troublemakers with the self-defense art of kung fu. The title character of NBC's Banacek (one of three rotating shows...
...shotput, another powerful American will be missing, but not by choice. Randy Matson, gold medalist in 1968, was nudged off the U.S. team by George Woods, Al Feuerbach and Brian Oldfield. Feuerbach, who has hair like Samson's and a mustache like Fu Manchu's, releases the shot with a banzai-type yell. Oldfield competed at the U.S. trials in a brief, floral-patterned swimsuit and a low-cut fishnet jersey. If these Americans fail to stir the Munich stadium crowds, West German Uwe Beyer almost certainly will. After winning the bronze medal in the hammer throw...
...begun by Family is showing up in several new entries. The Catholics and Jews are getting CBS's Bridget Loves Bernie, a variation on Abie's Irish Rose, which soft-petaled mixed marriages on Broadway in the '20s. In a more tentative gesture, ABC has Kung Fu, an adventure show set in the old West with a Chinese hero, to be aired every fourth Saturday...
...credibility of a President may well suffer, notes Yale Historian John Blum, when he asks Americans to switch their image of China-virtually from Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan-almost overnight. When a leader seems to turn against his own once passionately stated views, he may not be taken too seriously when he adopts an emphatic new stance; that, after all, may also soon change. Yet it is also refreshing and reassuring to find that world leaders are proving flexible enough to change their attitudes toward each other at a time when change in so many other spheres of life...