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Communism's busiest base in Southeast Asia these days is Hanoi, capital of North Viet Nam. Its streets swarm with Russians and Red Chinese. Laos is much on their minds. Sixty Russian pilots and flight engineers are billeted at the Union Hotel, and the persistent sound in the air is the drone of Ilyushins winging off with supplies for the pro-Communist rebels in Laos. But Hanoi's rulers have an even more important project in mind after Laos. At party dinners, where the cutlery comes from East Germany, the glasses from Czechoslovakia and the brandy from Bulgaria...
...leading 3,500 nonrailroad tuggers in separate negotiations and holding out for wage boosts of 33¼%. The tuggers threatened to call a far greater strike this week, stop most of the fuel shipments into the city and prevent most ocean liners from docking at the world's busiest port...
...material and good talent, he knows how to keep alive shows that are too sickly (or, occasionally, too good) to attract audiences by themselves. His own best flack, Merrick uses up pressagents like paper towels. For Clutterbuck, his first show, he had "Mr. Clutterbuck" paged in Manhattan's busiest hotels. For the benefit of the 1,600 newsmen boring themselves to death at Princess Grace's wedding, Merrick skywrote above Monaco, WHEN IN NEW YORK, SEE "FANNY." Some of his schemes are ordinary (he scattered sawdust and cowboys under the Destry marquee), and some are bizarre; this week...
...American? "I have worked and lived here since I was a boy," Kuniyoshi argued. "I am just as much American in my approach and thinking as the next fellow." He got into the show-and went on to win a reputation as a man who lived in the busiest and most bustling of nations and pictured it as a land of long and silent dreams (see color). Last week Boston University was assembling 65 of his paintings and drawings for the biggest Kuniyoshi show in the U.S. since his death from cancer in 1953. The show will open next month...
...heavily armed battalions of Communist North Vietnamese soldiers had crossed the border into northeast Laos and had attacked the town of Nonget. It was, cried Boun Oum, nothing less than a case of "flagrant aggression"-another Communist stab along the Asian front, the cold war's broadest and busiest...