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Lafayette East. Until three years ago, the V.N.A.F. was a kind of Asian Lafayette Escadrille. The pilots came from good families, had their pick of Vietnamese girls to date, were togged up by then Commander Nguyen Cao Ky in natty black flying suits, black boots and sunglasses. But they had scant discipline and seldom bothered about flight conditions or briefings on enemy preparedness. In those days, some pilots refused to fly at any altitude except 9,000 feet because nine is the Buddhist lucky number...
...arrival of U.S. advisers and the appointment of Major General Tran Van Minh to succeed Ky as commander have changed some of that. The Americans have taught aircraft care and flight safety. Minh, who works at a nine-phone desk but writes poetry in off-hours, wants his pilots to continue their sociability, "especially with the ladies," but to be disciplined when airborne. The improvement has raised the limited hope that some day, when the fighting is finally scaled down, the South Vietnamese will be able to carry their own in the air as well as on the ground...
Just who would be assigned to make the initial contacts with the N.L.F. remained to be seen. Palace sources said that the Vice President and chief South Vietnamese negotiator at the Paris conference, Nguyen Cao Ky, would not take part in the meetings until a lower-level delegate had made the first soundings. If these turned out to be fruitful, Ky would take over. The agenda? Ky's advisers said he was planning to discuss the gamut of problems, from the war itself to the issues of withdrawal and a ceasefire. Any reports that some concrete concessions were...
Died. John Mason Brown, 68, journalist, drama critic and lecturer; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. The son of a Louisville, Ky., lawyer, Brown was labeled the "Confederate Aristotle" for his self-deprecating wit and tongue-in-cheek pedantry. He was drama critic for the New York Evening Post from 1929 until 1941; after that, his Saturday Review column, "Seeing Things," became a forum for broad commentary. But the theater was always his passion, and in 1963 he quit the Pulitzer jury when the prize was not awarded to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
...made it with all the early biggies, and more. You know what I've got to show for it? Three kids from three different guys-which three, I'm not sure. I've gone the dope route, been busted twice, and taken the cure at Lexington, Ky...