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...partitioning of Viet Nam at Geneva, he abruptly became President of Communist North Viet Nam. But running the petty affairs of a nation at peace was not, it seemed, the revolutionary's cup of tea. Last month, turning over the premiership to his trusted lieutenant, Pham Van Dong, "Uncle" Ho withdrew from the public eye. He even neglected to send his usual "Dear nephews and nieces" greeting to the mid-autumn festival...
Almost immediately, toothy Premier Dong found that he had chewed off a peck of troubles. When, last fortnight, he held his first Cabinet meeting (absent: President Ho), Hanoi's streets were still littered with the debris of Typhoon Kate, which had sunk junks and barges, torn up railroad tracks, burst dikes and spun off thatched roofs as though they were flying saucers. Although Hanoi is swarming with Russians, East Germans, Poles and Chinese (a Canadian truce-commission officer observed that "there are more white faces than during the French administration"), the Communist big brothers seem to regard North Viet...
...committee: Psychologist Robert M. Goldenson. Dr. Frances (Ding Dong School) Horwich and NBC Board Member Mildred McAfee Horton, ex-president of Wellesley College. Some of their chief complaints...
...Oxford-educated Prince Wan Waithayakon, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Fatin Rustu Zorlu (a former NATO delegate), and Lebanon's stoutly pro-Western Charles Malik. Besides Chou's, there was only one Communist delegation: North Viet Nam's, led by Foreign Minister Pham Van Dong. General Principles. For months the host delegation had been trying to put together an agenda (some subjects: atomic energy control, anticolonialism, coexistence, "universal" U.N. membership). Any of these might be exploited and become explosive. But, insisted Nehru: "A controversial issue should hardly be discussed at this conference. The conference should discuss...
...display last week the pick of its 4,000 works, most of them donated by enthusiastic San Francisco collectors. Included in the current anniversary show are the outstanding works from the museum's San Francisco Bay area annuals, which have given a boost to such artists as Dong Kingman and the late Matthew Barnes, a survey of Latin American art, important works by Braque, Klee, Matisse and Franz Marc. For the gala opening, the museum unveiled nine handsome new donations to the museum, including Georges Rouault's Sea of Galilee, and bronzes by Henry Moore, Braque and Matisse...