Word: nam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many, songs-Schubert's Serenade in Manila, Mon Coeur S'ouvre a Ta Voix from Samson and Delilah in Bombay, Schubert's Ave Maria in many places-and some long, too long, interviews in between. She went to an old church in Viet Nam to sing Let My People Go, to a meditation temple in Rangoon to talk religion with a Buddhist scholar, to Gandhi's shrine in New Delhi to pray and deliver-a little shakily-Lead, Kindly Light. Only once, before Burma's Premier, did modest Marian Anderson show any sign of discomfort...
...Communist Asia. Flushed with victory. Mao Tse-tung in Peking and Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi boasted that the rest of Indo-China was theirs for the asking, and looked past Indo-China to Malaya, Thailand and Burma. But last week, almost three years since North Viet Nam was formally surrendered to Communism, the heady Communist visions had not materialized...
South Viet Nam. Dynamic President Diem has created a stable regime, emerged as one of the East's strongest statesmen. Though Saigon's recent bombings show that Communists can still break the peace, Diem has the threat to internal security under control. With an annual per capita income of $144, Viet Nam trails only Japan, Malaya and the Philippines in the area. Diem has built 1,000 miles of roads, reclaimed thousands of acres of rice land, and opened two universities and a technical school this year. U.S. aid ($250 million this year) keeps his army...
...agreed to extend $4,000,000 (in yen) in economic aid over a three-year period. In the crumbling Laotian capital of Vientiane, sarong-clad beauties pressed bouquets on Kishi, and Laotian government officials welcomed his offer of $4,000,000 in aid and technical assistance. In South Viet Nam's capital of Saigon, Kishi's reception was formal and cool. Saigon's politicians were miffed because 1) they hoped that Kishi would offer $150 million in reparations and help build a major dam for them, and he said not a word about it; 2) President...
...Phongsaly to see if he could get another. The rest of Laos' ministers, all now technically royal and loyal, went nightclubbing. Communist broadcasters in Hanoi, Peking and Moscow were jubilant. "The agreement," said Radio Hanoi, "would serve as a model for the reunification of North and South Viet Nam...