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...obeys his French protectors, peremptorily summoned Diem to the Riviera, obviously intending to dismiss him. French officialdom told newsmen that Diem was a washout and should be dropped. "The sequence of [the French] reasoning seems to be thus," one Vietnamese official wrote to the New York Times. "To get rid of Premier Diem, one must sell the idea to the U.S. first . . . One must prove that Mr. Diem is inefficient. To prove that . . . one must stir up troubles...
...opposition. Ever since Roosevelt's first term, there have been people in the South who tried to be Democrats in the state and Republicans nationally. If those characters lived in Peoria, they'd be Republicans. That's what they ought to be. We've got rid of the shotgun [the loyalty oath]; now we're working with a rifle to pick off the worst ones...
...sect, in their arsenic-green berets, patrolled the boulevards, ordering traffic, and blockading the city's approaches so that they could control the price and supply of rice. Steel-helmeted nationalist paratroopers of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem were also out on patrol, but they were restrained from getting rid of the terrorists by an uneasy 17-day truce-enforced by the French army and supported by the U.S. French Commissioner General Paul Ely was counseling "a political settlement," meaning that Diem should come to terms with the warlords and hoodlums, and take them into his nationalist government. Ely insisted...
Syracuse defeated the Crimson 19 to 15 and the Big Rid won by a score of 13 to 9. Syracuse only managed to eke out its triumph by concentrating its first lien men to outscore the Crimson in the game's second half by more than two to one. This was after a startling first half at the end of which the varsity...
Actually, it took Johnson a good deal longer than he thought. For nine years, balanced precariously in a chair with only three legs, he worked at his word lists in the garret of his Gough Square house. At first he had a lofty ambition: not only to rid the language of impurities, but to fix it permanently. "Our language," he wrote. "for almost a century, has, by the concurrence of many causes, been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character, and deviating towards a Gallick structure and phraseology, from which it ought to be our endeavour to recal...