Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Five years ago, the wife of the late architect Eero Saarinen bought one of Nagare's works. Soon foreign admirers-Mrs. John D. Rockefeller III, Architects Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer and Minoru Yamasaki-boosted him until he had more buyers in the U.S. than in Japan. When he finally caught on in his native land, he became the rage so rapidly that he had to hide from acclaim. When Yamasaki asked how to reach him, Nagare replied, "You can't. I move from farmhouse to farmhouse out in the country to run away from Japanese architects who want...
...supplanting his brother; as far as could be detected, the two were working in harmony. Directly under Nhu, two officers seemed to be in command: be spectacled, pockmarked Colonel Le Quang Tung, in charge of the Special Forces, and Brigadier General Ton That Dinh, commander of the III Army Corps and military governor of Saigon, a dapper graduate of the U.S. Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, who wears a red beret, carries a swagger stick, and likes to be accompanied on military operations by his own photographer. Of South Viet Nam's 17 generals, Dinh...
...Name. French kings longed to possess Languedoc. Innocent III loathed it as the center of the strange Cathar religion, the last great Christian heresy (before the Reformation) to shake the power of Rome. Laying siege to Béziers, the French came in God's name, seeking heretics. But once inside, they slaughtered until the red crosses on their white tunics were lost in blood; in 51 hours, they put to death the city's entire population...
...taking guests from the night before off to Manhattan for a quick comb-out before hurrying back to Newport. The hairdressers imported for the weekend were downright frantic: Hugh Harrison from Claude's was kept busy all day at the Bogerts, and Mr. and Mrs. John R. Drexel III (who gave a tea dance at their house that afternoon) supplied a man from Kenneth...
Married. August Anheuser Busch III, 26, son, grandson and great-grandson of presidents of St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch, Inc., the nation's largest brewery (Budweiser), himself the newest (two weeks) board member; and Susan Marie Hornibrook, 25, space buyer in a Los Angeles ad agency; in Los Angeles...