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Diem was not bluffing. He turned over the job of Vietnamizing the Chinese to steely Vice President Nguyen Ngoc Tho. To both Diem and the Vice President the problem was simple and urgent. "There is no time for diplomacy or protocol.'' said one high official last week. "We are in a great hurry. The President himself demanded that the Chinese be Vietnamized 'before...
Vice President Nguyen Ngoc Tho insisted: "This is an internal affair." Saigon's lively, neon-lighted Chinese city of Cholon was plunged into deep gloom. Grocers closed their doors, sat in front of their shops reading newspapers. Depressed by the slump in business, the queen of Cholon's call girls took an overdose of sleeping pills as the shortest route to the shades of her ancestors, was escorted to her grave in a red teak coffin by a weeping procession of old customers...
...undergraduate knows, a sociologist is a man who is daily astonished by the commonplace. Usually, this professional sense of wonder finds its outlet in recording masses of data and using them to suggest trends, shifts in manners and mores, and the like. Occasionally one comes along who, like Tho stein Veblen (The Theory of the Leisure Class), gives society a therapeutic, though not necessarily accurate, boot in the pants. But a few of them suffer from a rare though virulent occupational disease. They become hectoring critics of their fellow men. They scold. They even grit their teeth...
...quotes from roughhewn Scots Poet Bobbie Burns. It turned out, in fact, that Malenkov had a Soviet edition of Burns in Russian right in his pocket. "A man's a man for a' that, for a' that an' a' that . . . The honest man, tho e'er sae puir, is king of men for a' that." Malenkov read in Russian, while an interpreter provided the Scots burr. "A very friendly man," said Lord Citrine later, "with a deep grasp of English cultural life...
Take the High Ground (M-G-M), an Ansco Color hymn to the glories of the Army's basic training, was filmed to the tune of a flag-waving theme song (Take the high ground and hold it! Tho' you face eternity . . .). The raw recruits who are to be turned into soldiers include such familiar characters as the bragging Texan, the brash college boy, the sensitive Negro and the weakling. Happily, the picture spares moviegoers another movie version of the Brooklynite. Richard Widmark barks his way through the role of the tough sergeant, and a curious attempt...