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READERS WILL GET a nostalgic look at the women's movement this month when W.W. Norton issues a tenth anniversary edition of Betty Friedan's best-seller, The Feminine Mystique. Friedan, a recognized founder of the feminist movement, speaks anew in the edition's prologue and epilogue where she assesses the movement's progress since its beginnings...
...Foreigners are not allowed provincial newspapers, and interviews with knowledgeable Chinese are difficult in the best of times. So the newsmen rely on the People's Daily, Peking's main newspaper, and the English-language report of the Hsinhua agency. When the Tenth Communist Party Congress convened in the Great Hall of the People last August, none of the resident foreign correspondents even knew the session was taking place...
Harvard's forgotten J.V. hockey team yesterday recorded its tenth victory of the year, a 10-6 whipping of the Carlings, a local club hockey squad...
...Grande de Coca-Cola's original title was El Coca-Cola Grande. Coca-Cola threatened to sue for copyright infringement, so they changed the title. It shows you how reasonable even the largest corporations can be. The show is a pidgin-Spanish parody of a tenth-rate nightclub act, and it got rave reviews, although all my friends who've seen it say it's terrible. Opens tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the Cabaret at the Charles Playhouse in Boston...
Hints that China was embarked on a new cycle of radicalism began appearing at the same time as last August's Tenth Party Congress. In typically arcane fashion, the campaign started with what seemed to be an academic argument over the failings of Confucius. He was criticized in party publications for wanting to restore slavery in China 2,500 years ago. Then the campaign was broadened by linking Confucius to former Defense Minister Lin Piao who died after an anti-Mao coup attempt in 1971. Lin, like Confucius, was charged with trying to restore a discarded system...