Word: dais
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Impossible." Britain's best golfer, 49-year-old Dai Rees. who lost to Palmer by one stroke last year, failed to survive the 36-hole cut; so did Gene Littler, the 1961 U.S. Open champion, and South Africa's Gary Player, winner of the 1961 Masters. Complaining bitterly about the smaller British ball.*young Jack Nicklaus, conqueror of Palmer in the U.S. Open (TIME cover, June 29). sprayed himself out of contention with a first round 80. "An 80?" he moaned. "It's impossible. I can't shoot...
...since the Indo-China war the U.S. has stuck rigidly to a line of Cold War opportunism whose ends have even been misguided. Naturally our support of the French in the name of anti-communism antagonized nationalists of every political hue. Somehow we assumed that the Bao Dai regime, instituted by the French in 1949 to divide and weaken the independence movement, had popular support. And after the war was over we continued to support this regime, rather than the nationalists who had temporarily collaborated with the Communist guerrillas in the name of inpendence and were best able to gauge...
...chaos of South Vietnam politics after the 1954 armistice it was difficult to distinguish French collaborators from genuine nationalists, and temporary allies of the Viet Minh from real Communists. The only non-communist political groups with any kind of grass roots following were the Cal Dai and Hoa Hao religious sects. But understandably American officials could not stomach any kind of permanent association with these tribes. And anyway they too had a history of collaboration with the French. Americans turned then quite naturally to the certain anti-communism and Western orientation of Catholics who composed a great majority...
...behind him, Diem could at last crack down on the Binh Xuyen and the sects. The Binh Xuyen's power was smashed when Diem closed the opium dens, gambling halls and bordellos, from which it drew its revenues, then fought the gangsters with armed force. To crush the Cao Dai and Hoa Hao, Diem sent his troops out again with orders to shoot; bullets whistled through Saigon's streets and in the delta swamps before the sect leaders caved...
Soundproofed Brother. One task remained. Diem was determined to remove Emperor Bao Dai, who still technically held his position as Chief of State. In October 1955, Diem organized a referendum to that end. The results: 5,722,000 votes for Diem, 63,000 for Bao Dai. The Republic of South Viet Nam was proclaimed, and Premier Ngo Dinh Diem became its first President...