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Next day when Diem's C-47 touched down at Bangkok's spick-and-span military airport, the President disembarked to review the waiting honor guard, clad instead in his national Vietnamese dress: blue silk mandarin gown and black Tonkinese turban. The mandarin gown reflected more than a mere impulsive presidential whim: it symbolized a complicated and many-faceted change that has come about in President Diem's political thinking in recent months...
...Nonsense." Franz Renn-Rain, 72, an Austrian who years ago abandoned his study for the priesthood to sell art in Italy, denied that he was "the master archaeological fence." Flapping about the palace in a stained silk dressing gown, he mourned: "Nonsense, nonsense, it's a small collection of little things. So I let my friends come to look at my collection. So I let them buy a few things. So I export something to America once in a while. What is all this talk about Etruscan antiquities? Nobody can prove the Etruscans even existed...
PARIS' PLACE DES VOSGES, originally called the Place Royale, was the first great Renaissance square in Paris. Henri IV first had in mind using it as a silk factory to rival Milan, but it later turned into one of the most fashionable addresses in Paris. The square, with its colonnade, is actually a series of joined houses; by royal decree the façades were kept similar. Built of brick and stone, it became a model for Inigo Jones when he came to design Covent Garden, London's first square in the Italian manner...
...Navy's Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn with about 40 gallons-"enough," he reported, "to circle the field once." Promptly rewarded with his fourth Distinguished Flying Cross (he earned two D.F.C.s in World War II, another in Korea), Record-Breaker Glenn grinned: "Everything went smooth as silk...
Fortnight ago, as the church was being consecrated, the thin, flat paintings caused a national flutter. Parishioners gaped up at Jesus as a boy in a red sweater, Mary in a black dress and black silk stockings carrying a shopping bag, Joseph in a Trilby hat and yellow zippered jerkin, John in rolled-up shirtsleeves and corduroy slacks, and Peter in a grey flannel suit...