Word: non
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half the population of Laos is thought to be made up of non-Laotian tribesmen-the Meo, Kha. Lu, P'hunoi and a dozen others like the Black Thai, White Thai and Red Thai, who take their names from the color of their clothing. Few of the tribesmen have much love for the Laotians who rule in Vientiane; some do not even know that the Kingdom of Laos exists...
...straightway. But a man of the husband's generation intends no violence. Instead, he wants to stretch the lovers on a psychological rack, then leave the actor there and reclaim his wife. As a starter, he hires a private detective to make keyhole photographs. For divorce proceedings? "Mais non. For the family album...
When asked their views of the Deity, a very small number of non-believers--16 per cent--felt that God was "a fiction unworthy of worship." When asked their reasons for their present attitude to religion only 8 per cent of the non-believers attributed it to "parental influence." These students' decisions were very definitely individual and independent--of the nine suggested reasons for their apostasy, none received a significant majority. These non-believers are, however, generally willing to recognize the value of religion for other students; only 10 per cent felt any need to "enlighten others by persuading them...
...voters last week cast their ballots for a new National Assembly. The unsurprising winner: tough, capable President Ngo Dinh Diem, 58, whose sternly anti-Communist National Revolutionary Movement, aided by disqualification of some antigovernment candidates, captured 78 seats in the 123-man Assembly. Six seats went to the non-Communist Left, and 39 "independents" were elected, but many of them-like the President's strong-minded sister-in-law, Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu-are staunch supporters of the government, and practically none oppose Diem's pro-Western alignment...
DISPUTED RULING by CAB allows financial Wheeler-Dealer Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp. to control West-Coast-based, non-sked Transocean Air Lines while it already controls Northeast Airlines. In a 4-1 opinion, CAB declared Odium violated Sherman Antitrust Act, but said illegal action was "outweighed by public interest...