Word: ao
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sortie. By the time the KC-135 was down and hatch open, the sudden October monsoon was whipping a veritable wall of water in its face. There on the strip stood a U.S. brigadier general and dozens of pretty Vietnamese girls in sodden turquoise and white ao dais. "If they care enough about us to stand out there in the rain," said the first passenger, "the least we can do is stand there with them." So out came Broadway Producer David Merrick, and right behind him Star Mary Martin and the 70 members of the international company of Hello, Dolly...
Rise & Shine. Rationing prevails everywhere, and Hanoi residents are permitted only 51 yds. of cotton cloth per year. Once girls in elegant silk ao dais strolled the shaded boulevards; their modern counterparts scrub the streets clad in floppy brown pajamas and gauze face masks. The only bar in town is in the former Metropole Hotel (now the Reunification), and it caters only to foreigners...
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, or: How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours and 11 Minutes. Filmed in England in 70-mm. Todd-AO and DeLuxe Color by spendthrift 20th Century-Fox (Cleopatra, The Sound of Music), this disarming comedy spectacular has the charm, spirit and easy-does-it amiability usually associated with movies made on a shoe string. Producer Stan Margulies and Director Ken Annakin, in lightsome homage to the birth of aviation, have sensibly squandered a good share of their budget on bamboo, catgut, glue, canvas and piano wire to reproduce an authentic...
Indeed, by the time she stepped off a Pan American jet from Paris, wearing a brown ao-dai, the lions were really roaring. In the Senate, Ohio Democrat Stephen Young blasted her as "arrogant" and "viciously anti-American." At a Cleveland banquet, Ohio's Democratic Congressman Wayne Hays growled, "It's bad enough that every two-bit dictator around the world reviles and insults the U.S. at will, but it is too much to let this comic-strip Dragon Lady do it under our very noses." One high State Department official, noting that Mme. Nhu had been invited...
...surrounding central Viet Nam. Although, unlike his brothers, Can has never been abroad, did not go to a university, and runs his fiefdom like an old warlord, the war in the central highlands is going far bet ter than anywhere else in South Viet Nam. An inveterate ao-dai chaser, Can has incurred Mme. Nhu's wrath: "He is stubborn and touchy, and unbearably obsolete concerning women." But, she concedes, "we all feel safer to have him in Hu?...