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Strange Silence. Less dramatically, an intensive and intelligent program to give the Vietnamese peasant a more equitable, hopeful life is also beginning to take effect. This "other war" has been ardently espoused by the President in the past. Yet most Americans have been left surprisingly uninformed of its successes: the dozens of 59-man teams now fanning out into the countryside to rebuild it; the new schools and clinics that have sprouted in the Delta; the hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese treated by U.S. military medical teams; and the Allies' slow but steady attempts to create a political...
...rice crop after two mediocre ones has put more food in the shops, and people look well-fed. Uncle Ho's austere example in private dress is losing emulation: Hanoi women are beginning to blossom in bright, gaily patterned blouses, and modest but earnest suits are replacing the peasant tunics of the men. "The State Store," once an elegant French department store, offers secondhand violins, guitars, and there are tennis rackets, jerseys and soccer boots for the boys who still gambol under the Red River Bridge. But there are also shortages, and some inflation, notably in the price...
...hardly My Fair Lady. But then again, neither is Hugo. He is a two-ton, five-year-old behemoth who in the course of a busy year has become the scourge of peasant farmers outside Dar es Salaam, the embarrassment of Tanzania's game department, the favorite of Tanzania's children, the object of a crusade by the nation's animal lovers, and the talk of the whole country...
Adenauer saw that the old, Roman Catholic -oriented Center Party of Weimar days could no longer survive in a Germany divided first by occupation zones, then by the Iron Curtain. His Christian Democratic Union split the Center, encouraged Protestant and peasant membership, and in 1949 edged out the older, better organized Socialist Party of Kurt Schumacher to win Germany's first free election in a generation. Then began the adroit maneuvering that brought Germany into NATO and won back the Saar coal and steel complex that France had taken. In 1953, he made his first trip...
...Wednesday at the Harvard Square Theatre, represents a new breed of films: the travelogue-war movie. Here is the familiar inane narration describing stray bits of native culture for Western eyes. Here is the widespread dullness of staged photography: the religious dance performed in an empty temple, or the peasant family seemingly ordered to cook a meal for the camera's benefit. Even when the camera turns to something indisputably real--such as the wreckage of the American Embassy or the ashes of a farmer's hut--it always seems to be missing not only the crucial event, but also...