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...greatest Communist folk hero to emerge from the Viet Nam war is a skinny teen-ager named Nguyen Van Be, who left his home in the Mekong Delta to join the Viet Cong. Van Be's death is recorded in poem, song and story throughout North Viet Nam and among the Viet Cong. Prompted by Hanoi's radio and newspapers, North Vietnamese schoolchildren compare his deeds to "a thousand thunderbolts." His picture, taken when he was a guerrilla, has become a pinup among the Viet Cong, who name squads after him and hold periods of silent meditation...
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.).* Take Her, She's Mine (1963). Hollywood's version of the Broadway hit, with Sandra Dee as a flighty teen-ager and Jimmy Stewart...
...year ago, Mireille Mathieu was just another unknown teen-ager trying her luck on a French TV show called The Game of Chance, an amateur tal ent contest sandwiched between the halves of a rugby match. Standing rigid as a rail, she sang one two-minute song, but it was enough to send a shock wave of recognition through thousands of viewers. That vibrant power, that haunting, husky throb. It was Edith Piaf reincarnate. Even her birdlike dimensions-4 ft. 10 in., 90 Ibs.-matched Piaf's precisely...
...that she needed someone to clean her house but couldn't afford to hire help, a parishioner of Good Shepherd, who had a maid to do her own housecleaning, showed up to scrub the floors and wash windows. Fish will undertake any reasonable request: after one tearful teen-ager asked Fish to help explain a poor report card to his father, a sympathetic parent was found to escort the boy home...
Surgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital started the trend in 1962 when they successfully reattached the severed right arm of Little League Pitcher Everett Knowles Jr. "There was something for everyone in the tale of the red-haired teen-ager," says a Journal editorial. "The public could indulge their curiosity about medical 'miracles.' " Unfortunately, the Journal continues, doctors also reacted with too much enthusiasm. Over-zealous surgeons "tried to reunite every limb, or part of it, regardless of the patient's condition or the merits of the occasion...