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...first class of rehabilitated prostitutes from a special school created as part of Premier Diem's anti-vice crusade. In order to be admitted to the school, each girl had to be caught with at least three different male companions ("We must be careful not to offend bona fide lovers," explained a police official). After graduation they were assured jobs as cooks, seamstresses or nurses with the army or other government agencies. The school does not want for replacements: on one night last week police rounded up 100 more prospective students from the streets of Saigon...
...Labor no longer is a disinherited, propertyless minority, but comprises the majority of Americans. Labor and management now bargain from relatively equal strength; government intervention only prevents or delays bona fide bargaining and settlement...
Kentucky (30) : All for Governor A. B. ("Happy") Chandler, who swears he is a bona-fide candidate...
...minute conference, Ike jammed an assortment of news. Returning briefly to the problem of U.S. military defenses, he said that it was "absolutely essential" that the nation "take its own particular position in the world" and create a military establishment "suited to its own requirements." He advocated "bona fide" U.S. membership in the U.N.-affiliated International Labor Organization. Turned to partisan politics by a reporter's question, he dismissed, with a shrug and a grimace, a suggestion that the resounding defeat of Governor Allan Shivers in the recent Democratic delegate battles in Texas could be construed as a repudiation...
Questioned by West Germans (to see whether they should be admitted as bona fide refugees), most East Germans say the reason for their flight is economic: they are tired of eking out a grim living in the East, and have heard about West Germany's booming full employment. But political reasons increase the flow: East Germans whose ears are attuned to Communist dialectic concluded that the main message of the recent East German Communist Party congress is that reunification is farther away than ever, and that the Communists are bent on building up East Germany as a separate satellite...