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Farther south, Diem's young army, proving more efficient than critics expected, broke the resistance of the rebellious armed Hoa Hao sect. One of Hoa Hao's top warlords, General Lam Thanh Nguyen, slipped into Saigon to seek surrender terms. Diem received him with an ultimatum: bring all rebel troops over to the government immediately or face destruction. Within 30 minutes Lam agreed to have his 8,000 regular troops in government ranks within the week, and ordered an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 guerrilla supporters to cease all anti-government activities. Other Hoa Hao warlords, including...
...Fists & Free Love. As Rocky tells it, by the time he was old enough for school, he was on the lam from the truant officer. At twelve he knew his way around the pool halls and whorehouses of Manhattan's lower East Side. He had been hardened by a stretch in a Catholic protectory in The Bronx, where the brothers belted him with bamboo canes, and where he had to bust a few heads himself before he taught the other inmates who was boss of the yard. He had his own mob of hoodlums, snarling youngsters who hated...
...their favorite saloons, a near-capacity crowd of 15,000 jammed the Garden; about 80% were women.* With a roll of drums, the crash of a gong, and a harp glissando, Liberace bounced onto the stage, wearing a snowy-white dress suit (later he changed into a gold lamé jacket...
...Mission just because it has almost exactly the same plot. This one is set not in Glacier Park but in "the seething city of Macao" on China's southeast coast; and instead of Technicolor it provides a scarlet situation. The witness (Joanne Dru) is not only on the lam; she is also the "house guest" of an eminent gambler of those parts (Lyle Bettger) who for pure viciousness makes Vincent Price look like a corn-silk addict. The private eye in the caper is Tony Curtis, who not only uses his body more expertly than Victor Mature but sometimes...
...Little Fugitive. Seven-year-old Richie Andrusco on a wonderful lam through Coney Island (TIME...