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...rebels had no difficulty laying their hands on Ngo Dinh Can, 50, Diem's brother and tough overlord of Central Viet Nam. Wearing tattered clothes but carrying a valise containing cash, Can sought refuge in the U.S. consulate, only to be turned out after the State Department received assurances that the generals would allow him "due process...
Last week the Supreme Court handed down a ruling that cleared the way for a new trial for a group of federal prisoners convicted of operating a narcotics ring. The most notable hood in the unwholesome crew is a man generally recognized as the No. 1 overlord of crime in the U.S.-Vito Genovese...
...like pashas" by buying up property from fleeing Frenchmen. Unspoken Alliance. But Ben Bella's brand of socialism has distinct limits. Algeria's chief alliance is a strange, unspoken one, not with the Communists or with any Arab land. It is with France, Algeria's onetime overlord. As if to make clear its continued endorsement of Ben Bella, France recently agreed to speed up payment of its subsidies to Algeria, budgeted for $210 million this year, which comprise Ben Bella's chief economic support. In return, Algeria promises to use one-fifth of the total...
...little old man laughed at the notion of a rank-and-file revolt. To James C. ("Little Caesar") Petrillo, 70, onetime autocratic overlord of 260,000 U.S. musicians, it seemed like a piccolo challenging a calliope. "Everything is tops," cried Petrillo...
...corporation back in the black, Zanuck boldly decided to go for broke. In 1960 he shelled out $175,000 for the screen rights to The Longest Day, Cornelius Ryan's bestselling history (800,000 copies) of Operation Overlord. In the course of the next year he bought up five scriptwriters, five directors, 37 military advisers and 42-no, it's not a misprint-42 stars.* Then, to the horror of economy-minded Congressmen, Zanuck somehow managed, in effect, to rent several thousand U.S. servicemen and 22 ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet-all for next to nothing...