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...aircraft carrier U.S.S. Core. Belching clouds of black smoke from its single stack, Core moved 45 miles up a tributary of the Mekong River to President Ngo Dinh Diem's capital city of Saigon, docked at a wharf directly in front of the Hotel Majestic and the Café Terrasse...
Hotel guests and idlers sipping Pernods at the café tables could count and identify the aircraft on the carrier deck: two H13 and 34 Shawnee H21 helicopters, plus nine T-28 fighter-trainer planes. Leaning on the ship's rail were some of the 378 pilots and maintenance men of the U.S. Air Force...
...during the week downgraded her age from 32 to 28 and doubled her estimated inheritance (TIME, Dec. 1) to $20 million-came new light on her 13-day marriage to the late Singer Sewing Machine Heir Alfred Corning Clark. Insisted the Polish-born playgirl, who dabbles in painting between café society rounds: "This money would have been left to me whether I married Mr. Clark or not." Echoed her attorney: "Even if the marriage [Clark's sixth] had not survived, she would have gotten it all." Why? Well, explained Alicja, noting that she was "in no hurry...
...Togetherness. Unemployment freed him for more revolutionary talk in Parisian cafés and garrets with men like Teng Hsiao-ping, Chou En-lai and Chen Yi (now, respectively, Secretary-General of the party, Premier and Foreign Minister of Red China). He also found time to fall in love with an energetic, determined Hunanese girl named Tsai Chang. Soon both joined the Communist Party and were married. In 1924, after stopping off in Moscow, Li and his wife headed back to China, and, at the party's orders, went their separate ways-Tsai Chang to Shanghai to agitate among...
...banks of the Moldau River. Unveiled in 1955, after three years of steady chiseling, the 56-ft.-high statue of Stalin stands atop a 40-ft. base, flanked by eight slightly smaller figures representing workers, soldiers, scientists. Instead of bothering to demolish the colossus, people were whispering in Prague cafés last week that Comrade Novotny could simply cut off the heads of the eight statues and label the edifice: "In memory of the victims of Stalinism...