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Apathy. Life in Hanoi today is no laughing matter. People are not starving, but anything beyond the necessities, anything like oil, flour or sugar, is prohibitively expensive. The dong-North Viet Nam's unit of currency-has no standing whatsoever in international exchange...
...commitments to Broadway shows, even insisted that Robards move in with him so that he could keep the convivial actor under surveillance. One TV crew member summed up the strain in a ditty fitted to a My Fair Lady tune: "I'm getting murdered in the morning/ Ding dong the Bell is going to chime...
...onetime mailman who spent much of his early life in and out of French colonial jails. Le was all right in guerrilla days when he confiscated enough rice from the peasants to feed Ho's troops, in return for which he issued bales full of newly minted dongs, all bearing Ho's portrait. But running an economy of 12 million people came a little harder. Today, salaries and taxes are still computed in bags of rice, and on this basis a worker earns 300 bags a year, while his counterpart in non-Communist South Viet Nam gets...
...been fired from an airplane, and that event, one morning last week, opened up what the Air Force called "a new dimension" in the nation's defense against enemy bombers. The new-dimension rocket was the Air Force's MB-1, or Genie (formerly dubbed Ding Dong and High Card), manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Co. The Genie's nuclear punch, said an Air Force spokesman, is "well below nominal"-nominal meaning, in the strange new vocabulary of the Atomic Age, equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. But even a "well below'nominal...
...botched situation is largely the work of a small, fierce-eyed man with a bulging forehead named Truong Chinh-called "Little Uncle" in recognition of his role as heir apparent to "Great Uncle" Ho Chi Minh. Back in 1951 Truong Chinh was named secretary-general of the Lao Dong (Communist) Party, and launched a ferocious campaign of land reform. His slogan: "Better kill ten innocent people than let one enemy escape." Son of a landlord mandarin himself, Truong let his own parents die at the hands of his land reformers, declaring coldly: "The people's court was right...