Word: nanning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the sexiest of the new bare fashions are the clinging mat-jersey creations of Nan Herzlinger, 36, who has been designing on Seventh Avenue for just three years. Whether it be a purple-bloomer at-home costume or a short white cocktail dress, she slashes the neck well below the bustline and the back even lower, laces the precarious bodice together by wrapping it with 13 feet of jersey string. The seductive effect is straight out of a seraglio...
Ruefully admitting that his soldiers "are not doing so well" against the guerrillas, he ordered reinforcements sent to the besieged province. >In Thailand, where a Communist insurgency is raging in the northeast, new trouble came from rebel Meo tribes men in the remote hills of northwest ern Nan province. Though only 100 to 200 strong, the Communist-led tribesmen have consistently bushwacked government patrols, killing more than 30 men. Last week in nearby Chiang Rai province, another Meo band shot down a government helicopter. The increased guerrilla activity may provide the power holder in Thailand's military regime, General...
...Thailand, Army Commander General Praphas Charusathien reported that a Communist battalion of 600 men tried to cross the border into his country from Laos and that two more Communist battalions were poised on the border at Nan. The Thais, faced with the growing Communist insurgency threat in the Northeast, tend to over-react somewhat to any burst of Communist military activity in Laos. The battalions may consist of Thai insurgents slipping back home after training in North Viet Nam and trying to cross the border in small units. Whatever they are, however, they constitute a threat that is bound...
...himself spent the day in seclusion with his family, explaining that a Chinese birthday celebration also marks the solemn mu nan chih jih, or "day of a mother's suffering through childbirth...