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Hanoi, long the brothel-studded "Paris of the Orient," is now grubby and cheerless, and the once glittering Street of Silk is deserted soon after sundown, reported TIME Correspondent James Wilde, one of the few Westerners to visit Hanoi in its six years of Red rule. Crowds flock to the "people's stores"-but only to stare enviously at shoddy goods priced way out of reach of the average worker's 40-dong monthly salary. (A bicycle, at 400 dong, is the ultimate symbol of status.) Loudspeakers call everybody to calisthenics three times a day. Dressed Chinese-style...
Shriver also listed three suggestions that delegates to the Conference might follow up on their campuses: explain what the peace corps is trying to do, create peace corps "units" on campus and orient present studies with a view toward possible peace corps membership...
parents) and married to a Japanese, Scholar-Diplomat Reischauer served in the State Department in the 19405, has authored an armful of books on the Orient. The man who will be reading his dispatches, as the new Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs is Walter P. McConaughy, Foreign Service career-man now winding up a hitch as Ambassador to Korea...
...Marines aboard the sinking Bon Homme Richard did indeed capture the British Serapis in a bloody, muzzle-to-muzzle fight. But all of the 137 enlisted men were Frenchmen, in alien uniforms, vagrants recruited by John Paul Jones on the docks of L'Orient...
Passing Mood. Albert Davis Ricketts Jr. ("Whoever heard of a columnist named Albert Davis Ricketts Jr.?") was born in St. Louis, broke up a foundering nightclub comedy team-he played straight man-to enlist in the Army in 1952. Sent to the Orient, he drifted onto the Pacific Stars and Stripes as a second-string movie reviewer, a job he regarded as license to torpedo everything...