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...James Swanson, 31, a native of Brownsville, Texas, is better known to the Vietnamese in his new home of Ben Tre as "Ong Tom" (Mr. Shrimp). He is determined to make himself a wealthy man by selling that tasty commodity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The New Expatriates | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

...Bialoguski, it was $6,000, which went for renting the hall, hiring the 79-man orchestra and a guest soloist, Pianist Fou Ts 'Ong. Bialoguski also paid for such extras as a pair of contact lenses to replace his thick, dark-rimmed glasses ("the eye is important in guiding musicians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Concerts: Dreaming the Possible Dream | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

...takeover." He predicted that even with the V.C.'s relatively small popular following?he placed it at 15% to 25%?such a takeover would be almost inevitable. In many rural areas, the guerrilla is treated with great deference?or fear?and many peasants refer to him respectfully as ong bac ("Mr. Uncle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE VERY FIRST STEP | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...place too. Almost any Sunday, one can find a bunch of the fellows tossing around a basketball in somebody's driveway, while the women chat and watch and the children scramble and squabble. There's likely to be a spirited game of tennis at John and Bernadette Ong's place, followed by a few tall, cold vodka-and-tonics perhaps at Matt and Terry Gallagher's. The women can be depended upon to keep the co-op nursery school running smoothly. And thank heavens for Irene Saltz, without whose all-fired energy Tarbox would never have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Authors: View from the Catacombs | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

...When Ong Tao, the Spirit of the Hearth, returns home each year after his call on the Heavenly Jade Emperor, all Viet Nam takes a holiday from war and erupts in the festival of Tet to welcome the Lunar New Year. It is a time of dancing and dragon masks, of firecrackers rigged from snail shells and gunpowder, of feasting on roast pork and sugared apricots. It is also a time of homecoming. This week, as the Vietnamese greet the Year of the Ram under cover of the four-day truce agreed to by both sides, some 100,000 Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Charlie, Come Home! | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

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