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...cover actually fooled me as I touched it, thinking it was torn. So the trompe-l'oeil had me yelling "Touch...
...good training, fighting the Hoa Hao," exulted one of Diem's young commanders. "We keep ourselves in shape, while the Communist army stays idle." It was hardly that much of a victory for a dissension-torn country: civil wars do not a country make. But winning them is a necessity for Diem if his regime is to last...
Paint & Passion. Hopper first sketched Early Sunday Morning (opposite) on "Seventh Avenue, or maybe Eighth. They've torn the shops down since." He did the oil in the small, tidy Washington Square studio where he has lived for 42 years. His wife, also an artist, poses for most of his figures, as she did for the woman in the window in Cape Cod Morning. "It's a woman looking out to see if the weather's good enough to hang out her wash," she explains. "Did I say that?" Hopper rumbles in contradiction. "You're making...
...accordance with the terms of Geneva, the French efficiently and soberly pulled out last week from Haiphong (pop. 200,000), their last territorial enclave in northern Viet Nam. Carefully collecting 300,000 tons of military hardware, including salvaged barbed wire and scrap-iron roofs torn from army warehouses, the French evacuated the last of 150,000 troops and 800,000 civilian refugees. Almost all the businessmen left town with them, Frenchmen, Indians, Chinese; those who remained hastily laid out $1.50 apiece for official, handkerchief-sized red-and-yellow-starred Communist flags...
...Southeast Asia manager three years later. Wherever he went Symonds showed a rare sympathy for the impoverished, war-torn Asians he met and wrote about. "He was always sympathetic and respectful to them," says one correspondent who worked with him, "and that's more than a lot of us were...