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...jerry-built new regime would need more than a little bit of luck to survive. But some observers believe that South Viet Nam's warring factions, shaken by anarchy and Viet Cong inroads, are coming to realize the need for stability. Startlingly, a Buddhist weekly in Hue declared last week: "If Communism triumphs, Buddhism cannot survive." Published over the name of left-leaning Thich Tri Quang, the editorial was the Buddhists' strongest anti-Communist statement...
...such shifts move between stimulation and repose, possibly to relieve eyestrain. Richard Anuszkiewicz, 34, plays with afterimages, or the way one color engenders the false sensation of its complement on the retina. In his Union of the Four (at right), the red pigment throughout the painting is the same hue, despite what the eye sees...
...makers have pursued their elusive goal of a color-TV set in every living room with a great hue and cry, but the public at large has not joined in. Now the manufacturers have decided that the situation calls for less cry, more hue. This year the industry expects to sell 1,300,000 color sets worth $750 million, 70% more than last year and ten times as many as in 1960. Since that is still far short of black-and-white sales (7,500,000 sets this year), the industry is hard at work pushing for a color breakthrough...
...coastal Danang, 380 miles north of Saigon, an "executive committee" of 15 Buddhists arrived by bus from the militantly Buddhist city of Hue. What followed was an anti-Catholic pogrom. A mob invaded a fishing village housing 4,000 Catholic refugees from Communist North Viet Nam and, as the residents fled in boats, burned 90% of their homes. The government was either unwilling or unable to stop the riots. Beyond detaining 40 looters, Vietnamese troops in Danang merely watched the proceedings. Their Buddhist commander, General Nguyen Chanh Thi, appeared once, drew cheers from the rioters, retired after inspecting the ruins...
Citizen's arrest goes back to medieval England, when the "hue and cry" raised by a criminal's victim obliged any bystander to join the chase and catch the felon. Forerunner of the Wild West posse, the hue and cry was then England's only reliable method of law enforcement. But ever since 1829, when Sir Robert Peel fathered London's bobbies, the existence of fulltime police forces has made citizen's arrest so rare and unnecessary that it now seems to bring more peril than protection...