Word: departments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thien Khiem, long a friend of Khanh and the man who planned and executed both the coup against Ngo Dinh Diem last November and Khanh's coup against General Duong Van ("Big") Minh in January. With a shrug, Khanh accepted the demands and promptly announced that Khiem would depart immediately for Paris and a protracted tour of countries aiding South Viet Nam in its war against the Viet Cong. Khanh hoped this further accommodation might still the noisy protests of his critics...
...Bigley, the executive who yearns for knitting and well-knit redheads. The star of How to Succeed in Business, etc. (which the French translate as Comment Reussir en Affaires) will thus have stayed with the show longer than any star in musical history. But in October he resigns to depart with his fourth wife, Eleanor (whom he married in 1949), for a nightclub tour. Why so faithful to show biz? Proudly displaying his four French poodles, Pom Pom, Jolie, Michelle and Pitou, Vallee vows the real reason is "I have four hungry dogs to feed...
...relieved Kaunda broke into a parliamentary debate to announce the news, and promptly adjourned the session so that his ministers could depart for the stricken countryside to spread word of Lenshina's surrender. In addition, radio stations throughout the land began broadcasting a tape-recorded message from Alice. Composed with her lawyer's aid, it pleaded, "You sons of God, listen to what I have to say. The government and I want to settle our troubles peacefully. I order all our people to return to their villages and not attack anybody. When you have received this message...
...Cambridge YWCA will sponsor a trip to the Berkshire Music Festival at Tanglewood Sunday. The group will depart from the YWCA, 7 Temple St., at 10 a.m. and return in the evening. Advance registration is necessary, and may be made by calling...
Kites & Flags. When Pearson's government recently hinted that "the realities of the situation" might force Canada to depart from its policy of nonrecognition of Red China, Diefenbaker rose in Commons to demand "whether this was just a case of kite flying, or does it represent a change of viewpoint on the part of the government?" Replied Pearson: "It does not represent a change of viewpoint." "So it is kite flying," snapped Diefenbaker. When Pearson revealed in the House that the government is making a study of the growing secessionist pressures in French Quebec and how secession would affect...