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...grab Saigon, Bao Dai tried to fire Diem. Instead, Diem fought the Binh Xuyen back to the marshes of the Mekong River. Last summer Bao Dai directed an anti-Diem offensive by troops of the Hoa Hao sect, but Diem's troops scattered them. Said Bao Dai a fortnight ago: "I've been accused of betraying my country. But it is not I who have betrayed my country . . . It is the big powers-the men who signed the Geneva pact...
...Sunday evening medical bulletin described the President as "tired," but added that his pulse, temperature and blood pressure were normal. As the patient neared the end of the first critical fortnight, Dr. White prepared to fly back to Denver to work out a program of convalescence with the other doctors. If all went well, the President would be flown back to his Gettysburg farm in two or three weeks. After another month of convalescence there, he may be able to return to Washington and full duty...
Last month a strike flared when the commission blackballed John McLoughlin, an I.L.A. pier boss and an ex-con (13 years in Sing Sing), arrested at various times for burglary, assault, gun-toting and bookmaking. A fortnight ago, despite court injunctions and its contract, the I.L.A. shut down the whole port-without a strike vote or any formal demands. Union leaflets demanded that the Waterfront Commission show a "humane approach towards men with police records." State governments of New York and New Jersey stood pat behind the commission. Last week, after eight days on strike, the I.L.A. settled...
...center (100 to 1,000 tons of its matter would fill a matchbox), the star's gravitation is extremely strong, and thus the collapse happens very fast. The star shrinks down to almost nothing in about one second. Then it blows itself to smithereens, giving off for a fortnight as much light as 200 million suns...
Indonesia to Italy. The U.S. debut on the Danube followed a similar success a fortnight ago in Stockholm. There, the prize U.S. attraction was a handsomely furnished, California-style model home, filled with 370 appliances. Last week Yankee salesmanship was also proving just as effective at Djakarta's Indonesian International Fair. More than 30,000 visitors a day poured through the gates to see the first TV show ever broadcast in Indonesia...