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...Southern trip was marred by reports of an abortive kidnap plot against Daughter Caroline, inevitably made further news with her Easter wardrobe selections. She appeared scarved, barelegged and besandaled at Good Friday services. For Sunday she had assembled her standard pillbox hat-in blue straw-and matching two-piece, silk-shantung dress. For breathless garment-industry tycoons tilting at windfalls, Jackie provided only one departure from the past: three-quarter-length sleeves...
Davis was a brilliant descriptive reporter with a breezy, intimate flow of language and a sensual precision of phrase. Bullets whirred past him like "rustling silk," shrapnel made "the jarring sound of telephone wires when someone strikes the pole." Politically he was naive and jingoistic. Personally he was humane and brave. Some regarded him as an unconscionable prig-"a robust flower of American muscular Christianity . . . the artistic boy scout," William Rothenstein called...
Hanoi, long the brothel-studded "Paris of the Orient," is now grubby and cheerless, and the once glittering Street of Silk is deserted soon after sundown, reported TIME Correspondent James Wilde, one of the few Westerners to visit Hanoi in its six years of Red rule. Crowds flock to the "people's stores"-but only to stare enviously at shoddy goods priced way out of reach of the average worker's 40-dong monthly salary. (A bicycle, at 400 dong, is the ultimate symbol of status.) Loudspeakers call everybody to calisthenics three times a day. Dressed Chinese-style...
...better schools" and "demanded that they take out of hiding plans for the huge gymnasium for Cambridge High and Latin School." The gym $3 million worth) went up as did several new schools including the Peabody School on Linnaean St.: "We didn't want to leave out the silk stocking groups and Harvard professors...
...have men and weapons now-we are strong," bragged the Red prince, who has fought a guerrilla war for the past six years. "This is what I have come to see," replied Souvanna. At night they dined under a bower of silk parachutes, along with Captain Kong Le, the moody leftist who set off the civil war last August by mutinying with his battalion of paratroopers. Souvanna hailed the "fusion" of Kong Le's soldiers and the Pathet Lao. But in private, the Communists admitted that they were as puzzled as has been many a Western diplomat by Souvanna...