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...seeming embarrassed at taking up his listeners' time--as though everything he has to say was obvious long ago, or as though he has said it many times before. He is 39, a social-democrat, the son of a rich canton chief killed by insurgents in 1954, the nephew of the archbishop of Saigon, the former chairman of the anti-corruption and information committees of the House of Representatives of the Republic of Vietnam. He founded, published and edited the Saigon newspaper Tin Sang. He was the chairman of South Vietnam's Association of Newspaper Editors...
Francias, who is described as a tall, black, tweedy type claimed to be the nephew of Adam Clayton Powell.He had allegedly also belonged to an exclusive eating club at Princeton without attending that university, before coming to Columbia...
...deal with Land-Vest was handled solely by Kraetzer and former treasurer George F. Bennett '33 and did not come before the full Corporation until after the land had already been sold. George Putnam '49, grand-nephew of Charles Russell Lowell Putnam and the man who took over as treasurer in July, 1973, says the matter should have come before the Corporation before the sale and adds that it will almost definitely come up in the Corporation's meeting today...
...Cars. Shaw threw unstinting labor against these odds and almost won. By the late '20s, he was supporting his wife, nine surviving children and a nephew in something very close to style. An image drawn from these times captures a rural American dream: "O, it was a beautiful tree, right to the northwest side of my car shed, two-car shed; had that '26 Ford and that '28 Chevrolet stationed close to that plum tree." Such prosperity was Shaw's undoing. Local whites "didn't like to see a nigger with too much." The sharecroppers...
Thieu, it seems, is in a touchy situation. On the one hand, he cannot continue to suppress newspapers and the demonstrations led by a strong Catholic opposition. Even the daily run by Thieu's nephew is publicizing the riots to show that the president has eased up on censorship. As Thieu said in a speech October 2, obviously directed to the Western press, without the support of "the people and the military" he will resign. On the other hand, the current demonstrations allow opponents to continue publicizing corruptions of the regime which were not permitted to filter down...