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...Loud Ties. The key spot and the most dangerous one was Indo-China. On its northern border stood Mao Tse-tung's troops, giving encouragement to the guer rilla chief, Ho Chi Minh. Indo-China was coveted by the Reds not alone for its strategic advantage. Mao Tse-tung, faced with famine at home, had his eyes on IndoChina's spreading fields of rice. But in Indo-China, the traveler thought, there was also some cause for optimism. Emperor Bao Dai, despite his passion for "sports coats and loud neckties," was intelligent and an energetic leader...
...Communists were waiting. Students and workmen, carrying the gold-starred flag of Ho Chi Minh's Moscow-backed guerrillas, marched on the harbor crying: "Down with American aid!" Before they reached the docks, the marchers were turned back by truncheon-swinging native police. Then the march turned into what the Communists wanted-a well-planned, carefully supervised riot...
...trained Red street fighters, the rioters maneuvered smoothly and swiftly to whistled signals. They burned the marketplace, tore down U.S. and French flags. From the hills around Saigon, Ho Chi Minh's guerrillas opened up on the destroyers with heavy mortar and machine-gun fire. The ships' crews were called to battle stations, but did not return the fire. Neither vessel was hit. A detachment of French troops finally dispersed the rioters. The casualty total: three dead,30 injured...
Oswald replied, "Help, ho, murder, murder," but it wasn't even suicide. Temple finished the performance after a quick patch from a doctor in the audience and then went to the hospital for six stitches...
...many a middle-aged radio listener, it was just like old times. The throaty "Heigh-ho, everybody!" was crooned above the strains of My Time Is Your Time. Last week Rudy Vallee, older (48), greying and without a megaphone, was back at the old stand with his new Rudy Vallee Show (weekdays, 11:15 a.m.) over Manhattan...