Word: dais
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hurry up, Pascual, it's raining," home-town rooters shouted at Argentina's World Champion Flyweight Pascual Perez just before his fight with Welshman Dai Dower in Buenos Aires. Pascual obliged. In the first round, he hung on to his title by hanging a right cross on Dower's chin and decking the challenger with ease...
...most powerful men in Indo-China, the undisputed lord of every profitable vice in the land, the czar of the police force, which he bought cash-down from Bao Dai for $1,000,000, he became a close crony of France's puppet Emperor. Between them, Le Van Vien and Bao Dai, who preferred the seclusion of the French Riviera to his own embattled empire, split a daily take of some $25,000 from Cholon's infamous bordello and gambling casino Le Grand Monde, the most spectacularly profitable hot spot in the East...
...AMERICAN MOVIEMEN REQUIRE PITH HELMETS, SALT TABLETS, QUININE PILLS TO VISIT THE CAO DAI CAPITAL, TAYNINH [to film The Quiet American-TIME, Feb .25]. THE CLIMATE IS SOMEWHAT SIMILAR TO A WASHINGTON SUMMER. PERHAPS THE INHABITANTS WERE MYSTIFIED BY THEIR STRANGE ATTIRE AND ECCENTRIC DIET...
...annual procession." Last week, trailed by a motorcade bearing some 50 technicians and actors, all well-armed with pith helmets, salt tablets and quinine pills, Mankiewicz journeyed to Tayninh. Meanwhile, prompted to some extent by the wishful thinking of the exile himself, word had spread among the Cao Dai faithful that Hollywood magic had somehow arranged for the return to Tayninh of Pope...
...Disillusioned. Next day, when the moviemen returned from Saigon to shoot some final scenes inside the Cao Dai cathedral, they discovered that the Vice Pope and his staff had departed for points unknown. Those Cao Daists who remained refused to have anything further to do with moviemaking...