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Hollywood Magic. Like Greene's naive hero himself, few Americans are capable of understanding the devious ramifications of Cao Dai, and it is doubtful if their number includes Hollywood Producer Joe Mankiewicz. On location in South Viet Nam to film the Greene novel, his concern was simply to get a good shot of the Holy See at festival time. Cao Dai's Pope Pham Cong Tac was in Cambodian exile when Mankiewicz arrived, having deemed it wise to flee the country after some trouble with the government last year concerning his Vestal Virgins, but Vice Pope...
...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...
Something for Everybody. They made friends with the tough Cao Dai warlords and worked for several months in Red-held areas, where the commonest complaint was a bullet in the belly. Occasionally they met half-naked hill tribesmen armed with bow and arrow. They worked in Saigon's shantytowns among prostitutes and opium smokers, went among the leprosy patients at Phu Quoc, where doctors and nurses had no modern medicines...
...this was disillusioning to the school's creator, Kansas-born Henry Earl Diffenderfer, 41, now Director of Education for the U.S. Civil Administration on Okinawa. Diffenderfer has toiled so hard to raise funds for the university that he is called Kojeki Ryu Dai Kagu Zeidan (begger for the University of the Ryukyus). Pressured by disenchanted donors (including a U.S. Marine outfit), Diffenderfer drafted an angry letter to University President Genshu Asato. The school's foundation is withholding all funds, said the letter, until "you can honestly assure us that anti-American and pro-Communist personnel of your student...
...Pridi's possible return to power with the aid of neighboring Chinese and Indo-China communists a la Ho Chi Minh. Pibul's cause has been considerably helped by U.S. economic and military aid which he secured after February 1950 by abandoning Thailand's traditional neutralism to recognize Bao Dai's Viet Nam government. With well over $50 million in U.S. military aid, he has built up a trained army of slightly over 50,000 men. Meanwhile, General Phao's police force has been built up into a corps of 54,000 men, fully equipped with helicopters and armored cars...