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...pronounced whey). Today their palaces are crumbling, and Hué is a subdued and ceremonial city of 105,000 without a newspaper, scarcely a telephone, and little traffic beyond bicycles and canvas-topped cyclo taxis. The only industry is a lime plant employing 50 people. Lunch is a leisurely three-hour affair. A woman dropping her cooking pans can shatter the tree-shaded silence at midday for blocks around. The facade is deceiving. The site of Viet Nam's first university in 1918, Hué is the intellectual-and Buddhist-capital of the nation. It is also the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Capital of Discontent | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...three-hour dispute was not on the necessity for the new hospital, but on how it should be financed...

Author: By Glenn A, | Title: City Approves Loan for New Hospital | 3/3/1966 | See Source »

Students will have until April 23 to register for the three-hour test which will cover reading comprehension. Verbal relations, arithmetic reasoning, and data interpretation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tutors Urge Draft Exams For Students | 2/28/1966 | See Source »

...Corps will not require the three-hour Peace Corps Placement Test of any Harvard or Radcliffe applicant this year, because previous scores have been consistently high. Instead it will ask interested students meet with returned volunteers who are studying in Harvard graduate Schools...

Author: By Jonathan B. Marks, | Title: Peace Corps Opening Drive Monday, Will Not Require Three-Hour Exam | 2/26/1966 | See Source »

Next came a three-hour visit to Laos. A military band welcomed Humphrey with Marching Through Georgia, and Premier Souvanna Phouma made no secret of his concern over the Communist military on the march in his divided country. But Souvanna, who hugs the fiction of neutralism as closely as the Communist rebels allow him, wanted no talk of military countermeasures. "The people must go on improving their way of life despite the war," he told Humphrey. "That is why we would prefer to see tractors arrive rather than weapons." Agreeing, Humphrey expounded eloquently on the TVA-style Mekong Valley development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Relations: Have Talking Cell, Will Travel | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

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