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...outpost in northern Indo-China. By one of history's ironies, the Vichy French, with Japanese consent, had built up the fortress at Laokay during World War II. Then, in the postwar years; Nationalist Chinese occupation forces had destroyed it. Now, only partly rebuilt, and held by a thin garrison of Foreign Legionnaires, Moroccans and Vietnamese, Laokay looked untenable. It was under Communist mortar fire. Its abandonment and the retreat of its garrison 160 miles down the Red River valley to the Hanoi-Haiphong beachhead seemed likely...
...half his life amiably panhandling the rich of two continents. But in Hollywood, where Mike Romanoff settled after being immortalized in a five-part New Yorker profile, he finally cashed in on the fact that he is one of the few genuine, 24-carat phonies in a city where thin plating has often been known to pose for the real thing...
...Special diets to keep thin...
...clothespegs, stacks of magazines, stacks of books. I looked everywhere for an English magazine and found, tucked away in a corner, the Strand. I couldn't believe my own eyes. I did not know what had happened to it or to the world, it looked so poor, so thin and shabby. I bought, but not without misgivings, the huge Sunday edition, some comics for my children, and a strange-looking newsmagazine called TIME. Still, I was sad and disappointed; those papers felt unfamiliar in my hands. When I came home I put them on my table and cocked...
...high-school bands tootled along his way. Teen-agers gathered and giggled and asked for his autograph. Taft scribbled his name, although-"Autographs take longer than shaking hands," he told his aides disapprovingly. He left no corner unexplored. In a grey business suit with thin, greying hair plastered across his bald spot, he strode into school gymnasiums, eyed his audiences impersonally through spectacles, and gave fidgety small fry The Speech complete with facts & figures. He told them with punctilious grammar: "No one can tell your parents for whom they shall vote. It matters most that they vote for whom they...