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Similar questions have been asked in a handful of books about Southeast Asia, notably Norman Lewis' A Single Pilgrim (TIME, April 26, 1954). Author Shaplen manages to suggest that the answers are easy without really giving any answer. Faced with immensely complex problems, Hero Adam Patch wades in with the zeal and vocabulary of a New Republic editorial. The U.S. consul in Saigon, he chafes under what he thinks is stifling official caution. If only his stuffy superiors would let him get to the little people of the villages, let him bypass the complacent French, and let the Vietnamese...
...hurl grenades into cafés in broad daylight. Harmless-looking old shopkeepers convert their shabby little stores into arms depots for Communist agents. A Chinese gambling-house operator runs weapons to the enemy. Counterespionage is apt at any time to burgeon into counter-counterespionage. At this game Adam Patch is about as subtle as a sand-lot quarterback. A Vietnamese doctor shows up, claiming to be a deserter from the Communists, with a plan for winning the countryside that the Reds have not yet seized. Although nothing reliable is known about him, Adam latches onto...
...program have been brief and vague. Glenn L. Martin Co. revealed recently, for instance, that it will build a $5,000,000 plant, undoubtedly for missiles, near Denver. Shortly after such bits of news are made public, a bolt of industrial lightning strikes the locality mentioned. A cornfield or patch of desert blossoms with bulldozers; roads and railroads unroll; a great, blank-looking building grows like a hard-shelled mushroom; odd and often monstrous machines arrive on flatcars and trailer-trucks. Houses are hammered together in new residential areas, and a new breed of men move into town. They speak...
...front!" * Hughes wore no eyepatch until about five years ago (see cut), is reluctant to discuss it because of Christian Science attitudes toward injury and disease. He credits Christian Science with curing an illness that kept him bedridden in childhood, has said that he will not be wearing the patch forever. *By unhappy coincidence, ex-Budget Director Douglas also wears an eyepatch. In 1949, while U.S. Ambassador to Britain, he was casting for salmon in West Hampshire, snagged a fishhook in his left eye. He adopted the patch to avoid double vision-incidentally inspiring the advertising campaign...
...public outburst, the quints resolutely went on living their own lives. They dodged in and out of their apartment, successfully bypassing swarms of newsmen and photographers. One night late in the week, three of them slipped out to a car, then drove 300 miles to Corbeil to patch up the family quarrel. The mission was successful; the three girls (Marie was ailing) were received with kisses and joyful tears and Papa Dionne announced that the whole sorry uproar was nothing but a misunderstanding...