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...show that he meant business, Ky announced that one civil servant would be executed shortly for embezzling $255,000. He also had a convicted Viet Cong terrorist shot in a Saigon marketplace, ordered all four army corps commanders to do likewise. Stirring unhappy memories of highhanded Mme. Nhu, the government slapped an 11 p.m. curfew on the capital in order to mute the blatant contrast be tween Saigon's hedonistic existence and the grim, grey life of the Communist-ridden countryside...
...sort of party that Washington has come to expect of Ambassador and Mme. Hervé Alphand. For the Opera Ball, the capital's top social event of the season, the French embassy garden was transformed into a tented version of Maxim's in Paris. Party regulars (Vice President Humphrey, Lynda Bird) and regular partygoers (Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Vogue Editor Diana Vreeland, Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart) were all there, along with a clambake of Kennedys (Bobby, Ethel, Ted, Eunice and Sargent Shriver), a détente of diplomats, and a ponderosity of pundits. The music, fittingly enough...
...room to weep on one another's bared shoulder. Happiest among women were those who had bought the selfsame dress and decided to wear something else that evening. Then even they started worrying. This side of Kuala Lumpur, where on earth would anyone risk wearing it? As for Mme. Alphand, she allowed bravely that the multiplicity of look-alikes gave "a kick to the ball-in a nice way of course." But then she was wearing a Cardin polka-dot organza-on both shoulders...
...Would you like a chocolate, mad-ame?" asked the elegant Oriental as the overnight express to St.-Gervais in the French Alps pulled out of Paris' Gare de Lyon. Even though she should have been careful-after all, she and the stranger were alone in the compartment -Mme. Huguette Munck accepted a bonbon. It tasted bitter...
...bonbon was doped, of course. As Mme. Munck, wife of a gendarme, later told police, "after a while I became sleepy." Across the compartment Truoc Nguyen Huu, a well-to-do Vietnamese businessman who had spent half of his 45 years in France, removed his shoes and socks. "When I woke up," Huguette told police, "I found my fellow traveler's toe in my left hand. I moved my hand at once. Then I seemed to go off to sleep again, and when I came to I discovered that man's toes in my mouth." That, of course...