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...been born in the U.S. instead of in Ha Dong province, on the outskirts of Hanoi, Xuan Thuy, 55, most probably would have become a corporate executive-if never a board chairman. As a youthful agitator and underground journalist and later as a diplomat, jowly Xuan Thuy (pronounced Swan Twee) earned the trust of Viet Nam's Communist chieftains. Even during a three-year eclipse from public view before last month when he was named minister without portfolio to head Hanoi's negotiating team, Thuy retained a resonant string of official titles, notably as a member...
...Born in Clarksburg, W. Va., Vance attended Connecticut's Kent School, then studied economics at Yale, where his tall, lanky frame suggested his nickname: Spider. After graduating from Yale Law School in 1942, he joined the Navy, served on destroyers in the Atlantic and Pacific during World War II. In 1947 he joined a Manhattan law firm...
...also enjoys a following among Latins and Arabs, with whom he trades revolutionary lore. He comes by it honestly, for Bo is one of the Viet Minh's "old comrades." As a Viet Minh major, he was wounded and captured by the French, who even then were impressed. Born July 9, 1917, in a Mekong Delta town 150 miles from Saigon, Bo's Southern mandarin background makes him an appropriate emissary not only for Hanoi but also for the Viet Cong...
...days last year, black demonstrators led by the Rev. James Groppi, 37, a Milwaukee-born Italian-American, paraded from the ghetto into the Polish-occupied South Side and the city's other ethnic sections to demand a city open-housing ordinance. Negroes constitute only 10% of the city's 781,600 population, and for a time the marches threatened to polarize white opinion against the Groppians, who were greeted on the South Side with abuse and flying bottles...
...rest-and re-created it all in a new form, part magic and farce, part fairy tale and epic. As a person, White was a self-tormented man who drove himself to high and lonely accomplishment; he was also a fairly ordinary product of post-Victorian England. He was born in India in 1906. His mother, who married reluctantly and late, regarded sex and White's father with total revulsion and her only child with a flouncing petulance that lasted through her long life. Constance White did a thorough job of squelching her child's natural emotions; when...