Word: bui
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eighteen-year-old Coed Bui Thi Oanh was one who did not survive. Voltaire and Confucius confounded her, and she failed her baccalaureate. In shame and despair, she swallowed 40 quinine pills and died. Since her death several other teen-age rots have committed suicide, and last week one enraged rot attacked his mathematics examiner in the street...
Principle v. Tactics. This was stirring stuff, bui whether it would stir any vast number of Frenchmen up that hard but beautiful road was still to be seen. After the first wave of gratitude at a firm hand. French politicians were already beginning to like the thought of the politics that would be resumed when De Gaulle relinquishes his temporary mandate. On the far left, tubby Communist Boss Jacques busily trying party as the voice of "the republican masses," opened a drive for a popular front to defeat De Gaulle's proposed constitutional reforms. (After a long, nervous...
...more jobs are opening up for handicapped workers. What the handicapped lose in flexibility because of their disability, they make up by concentrating on a single job, or a few jobs, learning to do them better. Firestone has 150 deaf employees alone. Allis-Chalmers, IBM, Hughes Tool, Procter & Gamble, Bui-ova Watch Co., Eli Lilly (drugs) have all found use for handicapped workers; electronic firms such as RCA, Western Electric, General Electric are using them to assemble delicate TV and radar circuits. At Lockheed's big plant at Marietta, Ga., the company last year saved $65,000 by employing...
Indo-China has a thousand-odd churches, some of them converted Buddhist temples (see cut). It is divided into 18 vicariates with about 1,400 native priests and 18 bishops (eight of them Indo-Chinese). Among them are Msgr. Pham Ngoc Chi, Bishop of Bui Chu and Msgr. Thaddeus Le Huu Tu, Bishop of Phat Diem. Msgr. Tu is the only Roman Catholic bishop in the world (besides the Pope, with his 100-odd Swiss Guards) to maintain his own private army-two regular battalions of 1,700 men, plus a militia of 5,800. (The two bishops and thousands...
...Lord Mervil seems to offer a way out when he asks Ravenstreet to join him in the mass production of a pill rather like the soma of Huxley's Brave New World. No larger than an aspirin, it banishes all anxiety and induces a state of euphoric serenity. Bui before Ravenstreet says yes, his life takes a strange new turn...