Word: gia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end it was announced that they would see President Diem at his office at Saigon's Gia Long Palace, later meet him and others in the government at a black-tie dinner. Back in the U.S., President Kennedy was waiting for the answers...
...property of mine by application of its land reform of 1956. By that time most of the land I had in excess of the allowed 247 acres had been abandoned by me and even by the peasants because of insecurity in that area of the province of Rach-Gia during the long Indo-Chinese war of 1946-54. This can be checked at the Department of Land Reform in Saigon and will give an idea of the fables that were told your reporter for eight hours.* To my knowledge the land is still abandoned...
Married. Louis Prima. 51, gravel-voiced bandleader who made such jumpy music with Keely Smith that, until their 1961 divorce, they were the hottest husband-wife act in show biz; and Gia Maione, 21, onetime Howard Johnson's hostess and Prima's new thrush; he for the third time; in Gardnerville...
Florida Democrat Dante Fascell, who was home campaigning, was instructed to re turn to Washington immediately; Geor gia's Iris Blitch and Pennsylvania's James Byrne were persuaded to get up from sickbeds to be on hand for the key votes. And thus, under the cudgel, the House finally passed the bill by a party-line vote of 219 to 196. It was a victory won by pressure tactics that cannot be used too often without causing resentment...
...Front. There is the cracked-up veteran who has seen too much (Stanley Baker), the wounded hero who begs to be left behind (Anthony Quayle), the American immigrant G.I. returning to his native village (James Darren), the cynical explosives expert (David Niven), the unresisting resistance heroines (Irene Pappas and Gia Scala), the good German, the bad German. There is also more than the usual helping of battlefield oratory, most of it delivered by that least martial of musical instruments, Peck's voice...