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...Namath's syndicated TV show-and melted like an icicle in April. "Gee, I think he's great," Peggy gushed afterward. "He seems to have so much fun." Joe, by all appearances, was equally impressed. "Say, Peggy," he ventured, with a confident grin beneath his latest Fu Manchu, "by the way, what are you doing tonight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 5, 1969 | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...concern, for China has always held a unique place in the American imagination. After two millenniums of maintaining an exquisitely sophisticated culture in relative isolation from the world, China was invaded by the West-by its traders, missionaries, soldiers and technicians. First under Sun Yatsen, whose revolution overthrew the Manchu empire, then under Chiang Kaishek, new leaders struggled to rescue the Chinese spirit from repeated foreign humiliations, and, above all, to push the nation into the modern world. After the Communists moved in to capture the nationalist revolution, a bitter civil war left China in chaos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: CHINA'S TWO DECADES OF COMMUNISM | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

Drug taking is a must. A Modcom producer ought never to forget that it is good box office to proffer simulated wickedness as an act of liberation. That is what is known as a low high. Many a boy's only contact with opium was Dr. Fu Manchu, and the closest that many a playgoer gets to a whiff of pot is Modcom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Musicals: A Guide to Modcom | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

...Manchu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...illness could more properly be named Flu Manchu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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