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Rhetorical Invective. The electorate also had some other surprises for the experts. By everyone's reckoning, the two top civilian candidates were Tran Van Huong, 64, the rigidly honest onetime mayor of Saigon, and Phen Khac Suu, 62, former chief of state and present Speaker of the Constituent Assembly. But both men were left in the dust by Truong Dinh Dzu, a plump 50-year-old lawyer with a fiery McCarthylike gift of rhetorical invective. In fervent measure, Dzu attacked both Thieu and Ky as he campaigned on a peace platform. Coming in second, he pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A Vote for the Future | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

than Ohio's Democratic Senator Ste phen Young announced that he was retiring from politics -in 1970 when his new term will be up and he will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ohio: What Beat Taft | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

Said Presidential Press Secretary Ste phen Early last week: "If anything is wrong, it is that there is too much machinery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Official Censor | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...blind or partly so with cataracts last week as result of taking dinitrophenol to reduce. That drug, whose weight-reducing properties were first cautiously utilized by San Francisco doctors (TIME, July 31, 1933), is illegally and secretly sold in California under the following names: Nitromet, Dinitrolac, Nitra-phen, Dinitriso, Formula 281, Dinitrose, Noxben-ol, Re-du, Aldinol, Dinitrenal, Pre-scription No. 17, Slim, Dinitrole, Tabolin, Redusols. Against them Los Angeles Health Officer John Larrabee Pomeroy last week initiated an elimination drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Again, Dinitrophenol | 6/29/1936 | See Source »

...ancient, musty Guildhall of London, Lord Kylsant was brought to trial before a man even more impressive than himself. Without the consent of this awful man (always readily granted) the King of England himself cannot enter his own City of London. The Awful Man is Sir William Phené Neal, Lord Mayor of London. Sir Phené Neal is also Chief Magistrate of the City of London. In his great stiff robes, in his flowing full-bottomed wig, and adorned with his cumbrous, jingling golden chains of office, Sir Phené Neal personified last week British Justice - the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Crown v. Kylsant | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

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