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...born a century too soon. Today he would have bought himself an act, taken lessons from experts and played the Emerald City to standees. Across the country, magic is enjoying unprecedented fortune. Says Dai Vernon, 80-year-old dean of American magic: "I've been conjuring for six decades; I don't know when the field has been so fertile." James Randi, a prestidigitator who tours with the Alice Cooper show, agrees: "Magic has had red-letter days. But this is a red-letter year." The prediction is no illusion...
...Francisco, the Magic Cellar has an answer to Dai Vernon: "Paris," a five-year-old magician with an ageless routine...
...island, picking up work as he went. Seven years later, after earning a degree in psychology, he convinced the Canada Council that magic was an art form in need of further investigation. The council, which provides governmental funding for the arts, bankrolled his studies of legerdemain with Professor Dai Vernon at the Magic Castle. In three months, he had mastered the trade of the tricks. Two producers caught his act in Toronto and built a hit around him. Today, with a combination of optical illusions, paraphernalia and misdirection, Henning holds audiences in the palm of his sleight of hand...
...Vietnam, as in many other countries, this schism helped maintain dominance by foreigners. Bao Dai, the first head of state of Vietnam to be recognized by the western powers, was at heart a Frenchman. He spent most of his time at his villa in France, and when in Vietnam he lived in regal European style. Bao Dai, the Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem, and the other would-be westerners who have ruled South Vietnam in succeeding years are barely thought of as Vietnamese. So it is hardly surprising that they would join forces with foreign armies against their own people...
...cataclysms and in charting a way out. The Viet Minh program of revolutionary nationalism, socialism and land reform, provided growing numbers of Vietnamese with an explanation for their confusion and a political program that helped resolve it. In a sense, both the Viet Minh and the Cao Dai tried to answer the same questions posed by a crumbling traditional society, yet because the Viet Minh's answers were more accurate and also provided some resolution to the problems, they gained wider adherence...