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...football locker rooms are great places for signs-messages like KILL! KILL! KILL!, and USE FOOTBATH BEFORE SHOWERING, and DORIS-HU 4-6301. Come Nov. 8, when the Chicago Bears and the Baltimore Colts meet again at Wrigley Field, the bulletin board in the Bears' dressing room will carry another reminder. Clipped from a newspaper headline, it says, simply, 52-0-the score by which the Colts humiliated the world-champion Bears last week...
...raising seed, making it possible to grow oysters in waters where for various reasons they are unable to breed. The oysters of Locmariaquer, for instance, are transplanted three times before they are shipped to market. The success of the process depends on what the French call tromper I'huître ("fooling the oysters"), an ingenious method of making the oyster clean itself out and preventing it from "yawning" and losing its liquid when it is exposed...
Tension developed between the two religious groups recently when Buddhists demanded the execution of Catholic Army Major Dang Sy, who is awaiting trial for giving the orders to fire on Buddhist demonstrators in Hué last year. Earlier the Buddhists had insisted that no mercy be shown to Diem's jailed brother, Ngo Dinh Can - who was executed even though Lodge privately pleaded with Buddhist leaders against the death penalty - or to Can's aide, Lieut. Phan Quang Dong, who was shot before an enthralled crowd of 8,000 in the stadium of Hu...
After last November's coup, in which Diem and Nhu were murdered,* Can sought asylum in the U.S. consulate at Hué, but was turned over to the military junta. Vietnamese newspapers splashed lurid accounts and dubious photographs alleging that Can ran a private dungeon and torture camp on his thousand-acre estate near Hu...
These charges were not brought up at all at his six-day trial last week in Saigon's yellow Palais de Justice, only 50 yards from the palace where his brother once ruled. Officially, Can was charged with murdering three Hué business rivals for profit, with illegal speculation and rake-offs on government contracts...