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Diem's 150,000-man army, made up mostly of refugees from North Viet Nam, is tough and well-trained. But it has not been able to beat the Viet Cong, who strike and slip away. Junks slip down the coast from Hanoi, at night sneak into remote beaches to deliver arms. In a year, the Viet Cong strength has almost doubled to 9,000 men. Though they have captured no major towns, they now have effective control of almost half the fertile southern delta of the Mekong, where half of South Viet Nam's 14 million people...
Leon Shaw played the Unidentified Guest (later identified as the famous Sir Henry H-R) the role that Guinness played in the Broadway production. Sir Henry should actually be the most important and obtrusive character in the play; but Mr. Shaw, though quite competent, let the lead slip from himself into the eager hands of the two middle-aged women. He unfortunately possessed absolutely no menace, and looked more like a night club comedian than a deus ex machina...
...birth of Eve. "I sat at my desk for days, thinking-how do I do that? Drew pictures, and all that. As it turned out. Eve has to crouch in the hollow of that tree from the beginning of the ballet until it's time for her to slip from Adam's rib." As danced by San Francisco's exuberant, youthful bantam ballet company, Original Sin is emotional as well as entertaining...
...load, the vaster Pacific with a 20,000-lb. load. The plane will be built at Lockheed's Marietta, Ga., plant where the workforce had been cut in half to 10.000 in the last three years and was going lower. Now, at least, it will slip no further...
Amon G. Carter of Fort Worth was born too late to be a pioneer, but he more than made up for this slip-up on the part of fate. Starting out as a boardinghouse dishwasher at twelve, he ended up as the publisher of the Fort Worth Star Telegram, a multimillionaire in oil, and, by the time he died in 1955, the man most responsible for turning Fort Worth into the city it is. There was so much to Carter's rambunctious, blustering, big-hearted career that one aspect of it tended to be overshadowed: Carter...