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Zippered & Belled. Those who feel that tuxedos are old-fashioned are trying out the long, mandarin-collared Mao or Nehru coats. In Los Angeles last week, TV's Tonight Show Host Johnny Carson marched on-camera sporting American Designer Oleg Cassini's version of the Mao in dark blue whipcord. At a recent party given for Manhattan Pop Artist James Rosenquist, Metropolitan Museum Director Thomas Hoving arrived wearing one by Cardin in black velvet-and looked positively clerical alongside Hostess Ethel Scull's daisy-topped maxiskirt. Still, when Bonwit's advertised Cardin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Man! | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...Mandarin. The most likely successor to Ho as President is Premier Pham Van Dong, 59, who already presides over much of the government's day-to-day business and is by far the most visible man in the Hanoi hierarchy. The son of a mandarin who was the private secretary to Emperor Duy Tan, Dong became a nationalist during his student days, and in 1925 went to Canton and joined Ho, who was already training Communist cadres for revolution in Viet Nam. They have been together ever since. Dong headed Ho's delegation at the 1954 Geneva Conference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: The Trials of Ho | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...China prepared for its National Day, celebrating the 18th anniversary this week of Mao Tse-tung's proclamation of a Chinese Communist state, Correspondent John Cantwell crossed into Mao's stricken land for TIME. An Australian who speaks both Cantonese and Mandarin, Cantwell spent several days in the big South China city of Canton, the scene of recent anti-Maoist riots and disorders. He found the city of 2,500,000 relatively quiet on the surface but seething underneath with barely repressed violence. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A VISIT TO CANTON | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

They were largely a sampling of a mandarin's memories of the great men of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: A Mandarin's Anti-Memoirs | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...something old. TIME meant to say "for other dialects," Taiwanese and other Chinese who speak dialects have trouble understanding spoken Mandarin. But the written language is indeed universal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 26, 1967 | 5/26/1967 | See Source »

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