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...decided he did not like its Sunday comics and demanded-unsuccessfully-that J.R. fire the managing editor. During his school years he had sometimes worked summers and weekends at the Tribune, at one time conducted a children's column called "Aunt Elsie." One of his efforts began: "Heidie-ho, kiddies, this is Billy Knowland with another story." Now, however, his duties were vague. He put in some time on the Tribune's business side, helped streamline the logotype-and feverishly pursued his political career...
...long wanted to revolt," said a young man named Nguyen Khai Diem. "But we started the uprising in earnest when we received the letter from Chairman Ho saying that freedom was being given back to the people, and we found that...
...bloody business in which a whole uniformed army of reformers had marched into peasant areas, declared martial law, stripped tiny landholders of their farms, and shipped thousands off to prison or death indiscriminately. When its harvest turned out to be only unrest and barren rice fields, Dictator Ho Chi Minh tried to mend the error by firing Party Boss Truong and circulating a letter which promised drastic liberalization of his regime. Last week, at the sprawling seaport town of Tourane, a boatload of refugees from the Communist North stepped ashore in free South Viet Nam to tell a fuller story...
...overpopulated province of Nghean, which lies south of Hanoi, is a troubled ground that in an earlier day produced wispy, goateed Communist Dictator Ho Chi Minh. According to reports reaching South Viet Nam, peasants armed with swords and farm tools surprised Communist guards and took their weapons. Some Viet Minh local units joined the rebels, too. General Hoang Sam's crack 304th Division drove the insurgents into the hills, where they are now setting up the kind of guerrilla resistance that Comrade Ho pioneered...
...news, though expected (TIME, Sept. 24), set off an outcry in the press. The Laborite Daily Herald found "experts" who called it an "amazing and stupid decision." Other papers sadly agreed that the decision was inevitable, since Britain has 'ho comparable jetliners, but angrily demanded to know what is being done to build them. Said the News Chronicle: "Things would be much better if there were signs that a British jetliner capable of crossing the Atlantic in one hop was on the stocks...