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Though he was the son of a successful Los Angeles realtor, David Gitelson, 26, lived in Viet Nam like the lowliest peasant. His home was a palm-frond shack in Ba The, a tiny Mekong Delta village 25 miles from the nearest U.S. settlement. Carrying all his worldly possessions in a wheat sack, Gitelson traveled the back canals of the Delta in sandals and faded Levi's, entertaining peasants with his concertina and instructing them in the modern farming methods he had picked up as an honor student at the University of California at Davis. The peasants called...
...HOPE DESERT GOLF CLASSIC (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). Such pros as Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus along with a flock of golfing celebrities join Bob in his ninth annual tourney, live from Palm Desert, Calif. Final round on Sunday...
...make a small pleasantry to his audience--usually "Vietnam for 1000 years." Unfortunately, to the Vietnamese it came out sounding quite different--"The duck wants to lie down." The Viets would always howl at this and Mac thought he had really scored. Vietnamese, is their answer to Sun Valley, Palm Beach and White Sulphur Springs. Both sides regard it as one of the trophies in this war and consequently it sees little of the fighting. Saigon politicos and generals use it for their R & R and there are serious reports that VC higher-ups vacation here too. The unnatural quiet...
...Teeth. Still and all, it is a strange life for a man whose first two wives were Czar Alexander II's daughter Catherine and Vincent Astor's daughter Alice. Nonetheless, Obolensky, a gallant bachelor since 1932, continues to serve as a prized escort from Newport to Palm Beach. Age seems to have slowed him not a bit. He can still dance the night away, on festive occasions leaps up on a table and performs the lezginka with flaming daggers between his teeth...
...Adzope's dances, he took the microphone to sing French translations of the Beatles. Then a few days later, at dinner, he sat his guests in a circle and offered bangui, palm wine, in a traditional ceremony. People tend to forget the observances and even the shell of custom, he told the guests. "My great-grandfather is buried on the hill, and now the school has covered over the grave. Things have been changing quickly. But this is all right," he said, "as long as people remember that the bones are still there...