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...riots against Huong and the U.S. In Nhatrang, there was a repetition of the grisly tactics the Buddhists employed in their 1963 campaign against Diem: a pretty, 17-year-old girl, Yen Phi (Flying Swallow), burned herself to death. In Sai gon, Khanh and his "Young Turk" officers-notably pistol-packing Air Force Chief Nguyen Cao Ky-decided that the time had come to dump Huong...
...Booth Tarkington were to write Seventeen today," says a Connecticut high school English teacher, "he'd have to call it Twelve." Sociologist Reuel Denney notes with fascination the shopping list of a twelve-year-old suburban girl: "Water pistol, brassiere, permanent." When a 16-year-old Louisville boy, as a practical joke, gravely announced at dinner that his girl friend was pregnant, the first reaction of the stunned family came from the boy's younger brother, 13. "My God," he said. "You'll lose your allowance...
...French pugnacity. Near the Madeleine in Paris, two motorists quarreled over a parking space, and in the fight that followed one dropped dead of a heart attack. An Algerian became so enraged when his car was sideswiped that he shot the other driver in the head with a pistol. Adman Joël de Cizancourt, 34, was sitting in his parked sports car when a man carrying a suitcase passed close by him. Shouting that the suitcase had scratched his beautiful car, De Cizancourt leaped out and angrily slugged the man. He turned out to be Alain Gilou...
...first seven months after the revolution, Brazil's notoriously fractious Congress passed a record 237 laws and constitutional amendments, more than a few at government pistol point. Among them were measures to increase taxes, adjust ridiculously low rents, head the country toward a central bank, start a sensible land-reform program, and assure private foreign investors of a square shake. When Congress reopens in two weeks, Castello Branco has another armful of proposals. He intends to let the air out of the government's bloated administrative payroll, a key move against inflation, deliver a plan for development...
...table talk of the town is Albee's darkling play about a rich and erotic woman who corrupts a pietistic and virginal man of the church (John Gielgud), seduces him into marrying her, then abandons him on their marriage night, but not before she causes him to be pistol-murdered by one of three confidants, including his superior, a cardinal of Rome...