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...Hanoi, the Viet Minh's red and yellow-starred flags hung from stores and warehouses, from shacks and villas, from cycle-taxis that darted along uncrowded boulevards. Portraits of Malenkov, Mao and Ho stared out from the stalls of the peddlers. At main intersections there were bamboo arches of triumph, decked with papier-mâché peace doves and slogans that proclaimed "INDEPENDENCE" or "PEACE" or "PRESIDENT HO FOR TEN THOUSAND YEARS." No exception, no dissent was permitted in Hanoi's show of joy; nobody forgot to display his enthusiasm, or was too lazy to bother...
...Hanoi, capital of the new Red land of North Viet Nam, there were no more beggars, no shoeshine boys. President Ho Chi Minh recently inaugurated a "movement for good morals," so there were no more prostitutes, no nightclubs. Each day at 3 p.m. the people chanted patriotic folk songs and conducted group discussions. Each evening they danced in the streets beneath the gaze of impassive Viet Minh soldiers; the dance started at 8, never earlier, ended at 10, never later. Twice weekly at Hanoi's National Theater, before an audience of men in shapeless tunics and women officials...
...Hanoi there was a sense of waiting for orders. Endlessly the men with the megaphones propagated the Eight Political Wisdoms of President Ho ("The clergy must fulfill their duties as citizens"), the Five Disciplines of President Ho ("Newspapers must support the peace policy"), and the Ten Disciplines of the Viet Minh army ("Troops are forbidden to be dissolute"). One day the men with the megaphones instructed the Hanoiese to set their clocks back one hour, to conform to Peking time...
...Ho Silver. In New Haven, Mrs. Ruby Mae McRae, charging that she was kicked by flying hoofs and caught in a "veritable stampede of horses," brought a $5,000 suit against the owners of Savin Rock amusement park's merry-go-round...
...nowe is al Reasoun disperplyd, for lo! ther rideth out of the Weste upon usse Sir Alaine the Ladd, whych is siccar the most onnatural knight that ever was my doole to see. Ho! Ho! For hee kann not gat his legs arounde a propre Hors, beeing knocken knee. Therfor muste an other ryde into battail in his stead, whiles hee sits pyght and pritty on a woodan tubbe ycovred in hors hyde, and doth preetende to make the onslaught-slishe! slashe!-a-straking o' the air on's Sworde, and a-brasting of's cheekes...