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...Mme. Nhu," declared California's Governor Pat Brown in the understatement of the month, "is a controversial figure. She is not the first to visit California, nor will she be the last. I urge all Californians to act like civilized Americans and let the lady have her say." But for all the Governor's pleas, a number of protest groups pursued their plans to give the lady a hostile welcome...
...Madame. At luncheons and press conferences, South Viet Nam's Mme. Nhu continued to air her grievances against the U.S. In Chicago she termed the U.S. withdrawal of financial aid to Viet Nam's Special Forces a "betrayal." Arriving in Texas, she made a pilgrimage to Neiman-Marcus' famed department store in Dallas, lunched at the city's rooftop Ports O' Call Restaurant, and was guest of honor at a Texas-sized blowout at the Bee County ranch of Millionaire Dudley T. Dougherty, who keeps an oil well in his front yard...
Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, for one, thought she had a point. "She has every right to expect from us a full measure of courtesy," Democrat Mansfield told his colleagues. "This nation has played host to many prominent visitors before Mme. Nhu whose views were, to say the least, not exactly music to our ears...
Hope is 60. His pace is, if anything, faster than it was when he was 20. As Moo Goo Gai Poo, he will play the ruler of Viet-Poo on TV this week, opposite Martha Raye as Mme. Poo. He is off to Australia next month and is planning a tour of U.S. bases in the Mediterranean area to entertain U.S. soldiers far from home on Christmas Day. Offstage as on, when strangers are around him, he can't stop quipping. "Hey, I'm learning humility," he will say. "I called up my agent today and asked...
Fidel Fell. When Mme. Nhu arrived in the U.S., ABC was first with a TV interview with her-because Lisa Howard had leaped on a plane and flown to Paris to talk to her there, getting the jump on reporters back home. She has a longstanding relationship with Nikita Khrushchev. It began when Khrushchev first came to the U.N. in 1960. Lisa, then working for the Mutual Broadcasting System, hung around the Russian embassy until Khrushchev emerged, batted her eyes at him, and charmed him into agreeing to an interview. Later at the U.N., while Khrush was fixing that loose...