Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invoked to justify his coup-a purported "neutralist plot" within the former junta. It is far from certain that all the military are behind him. But he has rewarded his chief collaborators hand somely. Major General Tran Thien Khiem, whose III Corps troops arrested former Junta Boss General Du ong Van ("Big") Minh, got the No. 2 military job as Defense Minister and commander in chief. But among the ranks of Khanh's new, expanded, 53-man junta (eight major generals, nine brigadier generals, 25 colonels, ten lieutenant colonels, one major), there was endless wrangling over the lesser spoils...
Rayon was the first of all the syn thetic fibers, but its sales slipped badly as nylon and other new synthetics came on the scene; when Du Pont closed down the last of its rayon-producing plants last year, it seemed that rayon's day was finally over. But, with surprising fortitude, rayon has refused to be pushed into oblivion; it has survived as the largest selling artificial fiber in the U.S., and now accounts for more than a third of the volume of the $1.9 billion synthetic business. After slumping for five years, rayon sales have jumped...
Begun in 1915 and completed in 1923 for Diaghilev, Les Noces ends the series of "barbaric" ballets that includes L'Oiseau de Feu, Petrouchka, and Le Sacre du Printemps. Like the others, it embodies Russian folk spirit, according to Stravinsky. It is a setting of peasant remarks, mostly cliches, appropriate to a wedding: "Mother, brush my tresses"; "glory to the father, glory to the mother"; "to the wedding, to the wedding...
...fully under way for eight more months, the casualty list released last week showed that roughly 25 shows are already condemned. Sing Along fans will have to warble commercials next year; NBC has dismissed Maestro Mitch and the gang. NBC has also condemned The Joey Bishop Show, Du Pont Show of the Week, Espionage, The Richard Boone Show, Hollywood and the Stars. The Andy Williams Show, Bell Telephone Hour, Grindl and The Eleventh Hour are all hanging by a nerve end and all are likely to fall...
...Canon Kir is a Gallic equivalent of the late Fiorello La Guardia-a Napoleon-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) "autocrat" with no inhibitions. In his normal dress of beret, black cassock and high-laced shoes, Kir occasionally descends on the gendarmé directing traffic at Dijon's Coin du Miroir, takes over, creates monumental traffic tie-ups. At the inauguration of a new public school gymnasium, Kir, cassock and all, shinnied up five feet of rope to answer a photographer's challenge. When he found himself locked out of his apartment, Kir stalked back to a firehouse, borrowed...