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Mandate from Heaven. Diem's consolidation of power over all odds was his finest moment. But the strain of constant intrigue had increased his distrust of all outsiders. He seldom ventured from his palace in Saigon, was almost completely out of touch with his people. The gap between Diem and the masses was widened by his militant Catholicism. The "Catholic Mandarin" believed that he ruled by a "mandate from heaven" and that it was the people's "duty" to honor the President...
...contest of wills between hardheaded Financier Chinn Ho, who dominates both papers, and Jack Hall, the tough boss of militant unionism in the islands. At first the unions wanted an across-the-board pay raise of $10 a week. The publishers offered a sliding scale downward from $3.50. The gap narrowed to the point where there was only $2.75 separating their positions. But negotiations broke down, and the strike was on. Ho, the Oriental bank messenger who became a millionaire in real estate, said that management had not even had time to present its final offer...
Divorced. Ernest Borgnine, 45, gap-toothed, Oscar-winning cinemactor (Marty); by Katy Jurado, 39, tabasco-tempered Mexican cinemactress (High Noon); on grounds of cruelty; after 31 years of marriage; in Los Angeles...
Died. ZaSu Pitts, 63, Hollywood's flibbertigibbet comedienne, a Kansas girl who was a rising tragedienne until the talkies came along and no one could take her quavering, squeaky voice seriously, then adroitly turned to hilarious roles, from the whimpering Western maid in Ruggles of Red Gap to the befuddled switchboard operator of the forthcoming It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...hoped would stimulate intelligent discussion of alternatives to the present arms policy. The group's early leaders, especially Peter Goldmark '62, were careful to delimit the Tocsin's objectives: educate the Harvard and Cambridge communities on the dangers of the arms race, in an effort to fill the information gap the Kennedy Administration had created (or, at least, widened). In addition to its meetings and forums, Tocsin published an occasional News-Letter, featuring articles on testing and detection written with a technical sophistication occasionally bordering on incomprehensibility...