Word: ais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a chuff of steam and a skirl of wheels, the aged black locomotive pulled out of Danang, carrying 500 passengers bound for Hue. Soon it began to climb toward the mist-shrouded Ai Van Pass. As the train reached the crest and began its freewheeling descent, the passengers relaxed-prematurely. Suddenly the rails snapped like broken rubber bands as a Viet Cong pressure mine exploded. When the smoke cleared, the passengers-fortunately uninjured-clambered wearily through the brambles to nearby Route 1 and thumbed or hiked their way into Hue. It was business as usual on South Viet...
Thinking Man's Category. The Legion once had four limited categories: AI, for general patronage; A-II, for adults and adolescents only; B, objectionable in part for all; C, condemned. Today two new ratings have been added: A-III, for adults only, and A-IV, for adults with reservations (dubbed "the thinking man's category"). Almost every "problem" movie is viewed by the Legion two or three times-by its executive secretary, Monsignor Thomas F. Little and his associates, by a selection of college alumnae, and by the specialist consultors, who submit written evaluations of the film...
Ambassador Talat AI-Ghoussein of Kuwait looked bewildered as he stared at the three-tiered wedding cake in the party-packed penthouse of Washington Hostess Perle Mesta, 84. "I don't know why I'm here," admitted the ambassador. A lot of the other capital society types were wondering too. Then Perle led them over to meet Television Actress Inger Stevens and explained that the "wedding reception" was cooked up to "celebrate" Inger's "marriage" to a "Congressman," played by William Windom on The Farmer's Daughter. The show's producers had promised the sponsors...
Monsieur: J'ai été très touché par votre attention et par le soin apporté â cet article dont les reproductions sont très bien faites. Je sens toute votre sympathie et je suis sensible à votre attention à mon égard...
Teacher's Pet. Giving up the soft life of a Moscow student, with its "party spouses" and anticapitalist polemics, Ho set out for China under the name of Nguyen Ai Quoc (roughly, "Smith the Patriot"), as agitator and translator for Stalin's agent Mikhail Borodin. Their mission: to penetrate the Kuomintang and train Communist can bo (cadres) to infiltrate French Indo-China. At Canton's Whampoa Military Academy, Ho demonstrated his skills as a disciplinarian. Any student-agitator who failed to show sufficient diligence was promptly betrayed to the French when he infiltrated Viet Nam. Most...