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It was in this atmosphere of smoldering resentment that Ngo Dinh Diem grew to manhood. His father, Ngo Dinh Kha, was a cultured, educated mandarin whose family had been converted to Catholicism by missionaries in the 17th century. He was called to serve as administrative adviser to Emperor Thanh Thai...
Died. Lord McGowan, 87, longtime leading British industrialist and cartel-championing munitions maker ("I have no objection at all to selling arms to both sides; I am not a purist in these things"), a working-class Scotsman (born Harry David McGowan) who started at 15 as a $1.25-a-week...
But at the end, the indictment completed, the myth of "Imperial Harvard" stand, much assailed and much lampooned, but nevertheless alive and vital. Harvard is overrated, effete, thin, smug, decaying, but still... What greater tribute than Cunliffe's final sentence: "If I were an American I would want my son...
Outside Russia, most ballet buffs agree that the Bolshoi dance company is the Soviet's best. But in London last week, audiences had a rare chance to consider a rival. The Kirov Ballet of Leningrad, which somewhat obscurely traces its descent to the establishment of the Imperial Academy of...
Virtually every one of its models is a sales disappointment to Chrysler-a fact that Chairman Lester Lum Colbert blames chiefly on bad publicity resulting from stockholder dissension and the conflict-of-interest scandals (TIME. July 11 et seq.). Once-mighty Plymouth has skidded from 4.9% to 3.3% of the...