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With much chagrin I confess that I too had forgotten the "forgotten man"-the $20,000-a-year corporation executive [July 6]. What can we do to help ? Perhaps you could publish a list of the more destitute of these underprivileged executives so that if some of the rest of us have a little left over at the end of the month, we can tide them over until Hupp Corp.'s next bonus...
...Division and its eight-man U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group. The presence of the Americans symbolized one of the main reasons why South Viet Nam, five years ago a new nation with little life expectancy, is still independent and free and getting stronger all the time-to the growing chagrin of Communists in neighboring North Viet Nam. Since the beginning of 1959,Communist infiltrators have stepped up their campaign of terrorism, assassinating an average of one South Vietnamese a day, frequently hammering lonely victims to death and then hanging their battered bodies in trees under a red flag...
Moiseyev did not keep the appointment. The Ministry of Culture hauled him in for a "reeducation" session that included a sound bawling-out for "lack of balance." According to the reports that got to the U.S. last week, Moiseyev protested, voiced shock and chagrin at the ministry's reaction. But he would be more careful about what he saw and said in future...
...there's not nearly the chagrin in going to a second choice college there was fifteen years ago," MacDonald pointed out. "There are Harvard faculty with children in colleges they would barely have heard of a few years ago. In the prep schools, the Harvard reject goes off to a school slightly down the ladder along with some other Harvard rejects...
While the movie lasts longer than is necessary, it never really becomes tiresome because things move at such a frenetic pace. To Miss Monroe's chagrin, Wilder announced to the New York Herald Tribune's Joe Hyams (if memory serves) that he would never, positively never, make another movie with Miss Monroe. She should promise to be a good girl forever and ever on the studio lot, because Wilder and Monroe are a stunning combination...