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Ever since President Nixon lifted the embargo on Chinese imports last month, Americans have wondered precisely what tempting goods the People's Republic could offer. Part of the answer arrived last week in San Francisco: 11,350 pounds of tinned and packaged delicacies imported by Wo Kee & Co.-the first commercial shipment from the mainland allowed in the U.S. for 21 years. Sample goodies: fried longtailed anchovies, lotus paste, red date soup, bitter melon, spiced grapefruit skin, sauce of cuttlefish, dried dace (a fish), and a candy called white rabbit rolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST TRADE: Cuttlefish, Anyone? | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...weeks, Haitians had been wo dering whether ailing President for Life Francois ("Papa Doc") Duvalier would make his scheduled 64th birthday appearance on the palace balcony and prove to one and all that he was indeed alive and well. Last week the moment came: Papa Doc did not show. In his stead stood his bull-necked son, Jean-Claude, 19, whom the dictator named as his successor earlier this year. Many of the 50,000 assembled Haitians, who were kept 70 yards from the palace, did not seem to realize that fact. As Jean-Claude saluted again and again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: No Show | 4/26/1971 | See Source »

...spite of your monuwomental attempts at a neoro-womantic revolution, your womanifest destiny, as sure as womenopause, is to be a revolutionary womanque, you and all your sheroes, Kate Millett, Gloria Steinem, old Uncle Tom Montagu, et al. But I turn purple as a girlsenberry when I see the wo-manner in which you try to womanipulate the Manglish Language for your inhu-woman purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 21, 1970 | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

Besides the practical reason ?st equal enrollment, Dean Pet?nd his committee alternated bet?wo theoretical or philosophical ?s, the pluralism idea that "w? ?re different" and the straigl?d declaration that women...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 8/18/1970 | See Source »

This pure sexism is the sa?. Agnew racism. In its theory it? choice between admitting me? of population groups according to numbers or according to ability though ability is naturally destroy? unevenly between men and wo? for example. And in its practice means channeling women away ? preparation for Harvard from the? they are born until the end of school, a? "discovering" that they don't me? "admissions standards," or that they can better find what they ? "want" e?where...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 8/18/1970 | See Source »

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