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Moscow-trained Viet Nam Leader Ho Chih-minh did not mourn for Thinh, the statesman, or for Thinh, the rich rice grower. Ho said acidly: "The loss of an excellent physician ... is regrettable." But warrior monk Thierry d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner in Indo-China (who had been granted leave by the Vatican from his duties as head of French Carmelite monks to take a naval command in the first years of the war), knelt at a flag-and flower-draped coffin, solemnly kissed the cold forehead of Dr. Thinh. Said he: "In an Annamite country, it requires infinite...
Traditionalists among them had little need to mourn. The observatory's new home will be older than its old one: Hurstmonceux (pronounced herst-mon-syoo) Castle in Sussex, built in 1446. From its grounds new and old telescopes will observe the smokeless...
...your issue of Jan. 14 you state, concerning the dress reform in the U.S. Navy, that the black neckerchief is worn to mourn the death of Nelson...
Bill Donovan, back in Manhattan practicing law, did not mourn too loudly the kicking around his original plan had got. Any kind of intelligence coordinating agency, he argued, was a realistic step in a confused and dangerous world...
...tradition-loving U.S. Navy was getting set to pitch a sea bag full of salt-rimed traditions overboard. Ready for the deep six were the square collar (origin: to protect blouses from tarred pigtails), the black neckerchief (to mourn the death of Lord Nelson), the bell-bottom trousers (to roll up easily for swabbing decks). For enlisted men, who had long envied the practical elegance of officers' uniforms while chafing at the lack of pockets and the tight fit of their own "monkey suits," it was good news. At shore stations and in the Fleet last week...