Word: fig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end, out of the chaos in Saigon emerged still another leader fig ure of sorts: Dr. Nguyen Xuan Oanh. 43, who was Khanh's Vice-Premier for Finance. Oanh (pronounced Juan) announced that he had been appointed "Acting Premier" by the 60-day caretaker regime. A Harvard-trained Ph.D. in economics, who was out of Viet Nam for 16 years prior to Diem's fall, Oanh taught economics at Connecticut's Trinity College for five years, later worked for the U.N.'s International Monetary Fund. He is an amateur artist, is so Americanized...
Baseball's first two weeks usually fig ure to be a throwaway. But not this year...
...Anna, a brief intermezzo, Sophia plays a rich bitch who tries to persuade her bohemian lover that she doesn't care a fig for her husband's filthy lucre and all the disgusting bourgeois things it can buy. Like, say, the Rolls-Royce they are riding in. "Here, take the wheel," she announces grandly. "I don't care. I love you." Maybe so. But by a strange coincidence the affair ends up on the rocks when the car ends up in a ditch...
Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta took a harsher line. In the shade of a wild fig tree near Nakuru, where the 11th Battalion of his Kenya Rifles had mutinied, a military tribunal sorted out sheep from goats. Each of 500 suspects was trotted out at British bayonet point, briefly but intensely quizzed, then adjudged either "black" (an active, armed mutineer), "grey" (doubtful) or "white." (Worried about the color code's racial implications, the tribunal first tried a red-green-yellow system but found it too confusing.) All told, the tribunal tagged 100 black sheep. Kenyatta promised...
...chaperon, of course: creaky old (34) Arnold Palmer, who, with a record $128,230 in the bank this year, seems content to let Jack take home the trophies as long as he takes home the jack. The only local tournament last week was something called the Fig Garden Village Open, and Jack and Arnie flew off to Paris to defend the honor of the U.S. in the Canada Cup-a kind of General Assembly of golf that matched two-man teams from 33 nations...