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...autonomous man, and many of his friends think that he achieves a high degree of success. He was born 45 years ago this week into a well-to-do Philadelphia home. At Harvard he majored in chemistry, then switched to law. Later he became a law clerk to Justice Brandeis, practiced in Boston, taught law at the University of Buffalo. He did not become a full-fledged social scientist until 1946, when he joined the Chicago faculty. He wrote The Lonely Crowd during two years at Yale...
...week, suspecting a "latent plot" to overthrow his government. Premier Diem abruptly relieved Hinh as chief of staff and ordered him to leave Saigon on the Air France plane next day for Paris on "six months' leave." Enclosed was a ticket. Defiantly, Hinh called the airline, told the clerk to cancel the reservation. To Diem he explained : "There is no one here to whom I could transfer my command...
Then Diem ordered Defense Secretary Le Ngoc Chan himself to relieve Hinh. General Hinh received the Defense Secretary politely, but pointed out that the Secretary was not an officer but a law clerk with no military knowledge. When Chan tried to give orders, staff officers blandly pretended not to hear him. A chastened Premier Diem summoned Hinh to plead with him. For answe, Hinh pulled a batch of telegrams from his pocket from more than 2,000 officers, declaring: "We protest against the unfair measures taken against you. We recognize you as our only leader." Said Hinh: "Now, Mr. President...
Double Play. In Glendora, Calif., a man walked into Reed's Hardware Store, asked to see a .45-cal. automatic, was shown a $65 model, admiringly loaded it, pointed it at the clerk, walked out with $41 and the pistol...
Citizen's Duty. In Baraboo, Wis., James Lee Roper, held in the county jail on a murder charge, wrote Town Clerk Carl Hirschinger: "It may be inconvenient for me to get to the polls to vote next Tuesday; I would like an absentee ballot...