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...miles north of Saigon, straight into an arc of Red-controlled territory that provides a safe Communist 50-mile "supply corridor from the Cambodian frontier to the province of Phuoc Thanh. As the first light of dawn slanted down through the thick forest in the district of Ben Cat, the truck column came to a dusty halt, 600 troops of the Vietnamese 5th Division poured over the tail gates and fanned out across the harvested rice fields and rubber plantations to flush out Communists. Typically, the Viet Cong faded away before the massive sweep...
...dispersal of the Viet Cong prepared the way for Phase 2 of Operation Sunrise-the rounding up of Ben Cat's peasants. In each hamlet, the assembled farmers were told that they were being moved to a nearby strategic village called Ben Tuong, to be equipped with a school, clinic, market, deep wells, and a defense force of soldiers. They were promised a down payment of $25 and a free daily ration of rice and dried fish to tide them over the first three months...
...Richard Rodgers' in-Paris-and-in-love musical, No Strings, in the role of a cheerfully chased photographer's assistant. A onetime ballerina, Mile. Adam scampers about in a baggy sweater that sets off a leotard hardly big enough to cover a Persian cat, blithely displaying the charms that her tutu used to hide...
Newman, as the young dog who is putting on the cat, creates a memorable portrait of a phony. Begley is pluperfect as the sort of jolly old political Santa who wouldn't harm a flea-he's much too busy squashing people. But the picture belongs to Actress Page, who starred with Newman in the Broadway play. She swirls to the girls' room as if to a coronation, she cuddles her oxygen mask as a normal woman might cuddle a newborn babe, she dimples in maidenly dither at her gigolo's advances, she proceeds a moment...
...least, he speaks to one newly enstooled chief who told me recently: "It's going to be better now; Big Daddy can no longer boss me around." He had seen Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in an Accra cinema and had felt quite at home...