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Popping up out of nowhere, a mysterious "global combine" proposed to buy five Sheraton Corp. hotels on Waikiki Beach and 5,400 acres of choice land on Oahu owned by shrewd Chinn Ho, 58, most meteoric of Hawaii's new millionaires (TIME, May 5, 1961). Total price on the package deal (including a few odd lots from other landholders): $62 million...
...were not made out of the goodness of anyone's heart. The French may have been defeated, but the threat of American intervention in the event of complete French capitulation was enough to prompt the Soviet Union, newly embarked on a somewhat peaceful line in foreign policy, to urge Ho chi Minh, the Viet Minh leader, to accept a compromise with the West. Actually it is unlikely that the United States would have entered the conflict in any event. With the Korean war only recently over, America was in no mood for another long, drawn out campaign. Despite John Foster...
Most non-American observers of the Vietnamese scene in 1954 considered that South Vietnam was doomed. Pres. Ngo Dinh Diem appeared to be a creation of the U.S., pulled out of the hat at the very last minute. In contrast Ho Chi Minh was the revered leader of the Vietnamese independence movement. At the time of the Geneva Treaty, the Viet Minh had considerable popular support. Combining their prestige as leading nationalists with successes at social reform in the parts of Vietnam they controlled, there was little doubt that they would be successful in the general elections to be held...
...batallion strength. Of the estimated 20,000 guerillas at least one third are South Vietnamese. The other are either northern "volunteers" or Southern refugees now living in the North. A steady pipeline of military equipment and ammunition comes from the North, smuggled through Laos and Cambodia along the "Ho Chi Minh" trail. Much of this equipment comes to North Vietnam as military aid from Russia and East Europe...
...colorful cupolas it deserves a reaction of apathy, if not disdain. But once a Committee looks beyond the obvious architectural and spiritual separateness of the dormitories and finds functions that answer a specific need, the House can develop a valid ralson-d'etre, and command respect, if not gung-ho enthusiasm. Such needs that we feel we have partially met are those of increased contact with older members of the academic community, especially women in graduate school and the Institute; the purely practical function of longer lunch hours, and, through the House Dinners, the opportunity to meet people who share...