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Ngo Dinh Diem, his country's leading nationalist, has bodyguards outside his bedroom and a .45-cal. pistol in his desk. It is getting late in the Freedom Palace of Saigon, and Diem can sometimes be seen at his window on sultry nights, a chunky silhouette, staring at the...
Shared Responsibility. Mendès spent the dinner hour furiously revising his speech of rebuttal. By 9 p.m. he was back in his seat. One by one the Deputies drifted in. Dapper ex-Foreign Minister Georges Bidault, sniffing revenge (Mendès replaced him during the Geneva Conference), set down...
Downtown Djakarta sprawls rank and sullen in the fetid subequatorial heat. Wilhelmina Park, once the pride of the city's stolid Dutch proconsuls, now lies half given back to the jungle, its cracked statuary staring vacantly above a graveyard of wrecked jeeps, trucks and armored vehicles. Swill and offal...
The slopeline system, good theoretically, has never won acceptance. Pilots say that when an airliner is descending through low-lying clouds, the lights that are meant to help them sometimes turn into enemies. The critical moment comes when the pilot, who has been staring at his instruments and listening to...
Goose & Carrot. Life on America's radar line-the loo-odd Aircraft Control and Warning stations-is an unsettling mixture of utter monotony and utmost intensity. Although every operator knows that the next blip on his radarscope could be the herald of death, staring steadily into the electronic eye...