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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as things seemed to be going better in his struggle to save South Viet Nam (pop. 10.5 million), Nationalist Premier Ngo Dinh Diem last week ran into serious trouble. He was caught in an ambush set by the discredited but still powerful rearguards of his country's past-feudal warlords, religious fanatics and big-city hoodlums, with French colonials hovering indistinctly in the background. About 30,000 well-armed troops of the Cao Dai, Hoa Hao and Binh Xuyen sects (long subsidized by the French) were out in coalition against Diem's national government, lobbing mortar shells...
...siesta time in Pnompenh, the capital of faraway Cambodia (pop. 4,500,000). No tamarind leaves stirred in the bright blue sky. In the monasteries saffron-robed Buddhist monks recited their scriptures; in the shuttered bazaars few bothered to tune their radios to a surprise communication from King Norodom Sihanouk, 32, their saxophone-playing monarch who had won Cambodia's independence from the French. "As your King," King" Norodom was saying, "I can no longer be useful to you. I beg you, permit me to leave my gilded cage...
Another such controversy flared in New Mexico. It began last fortnight when Attorney General Richard H. Robinson denounced as "constitutionally objectionable" the weekly nondenominational devotional meetings held by pupils at the high school in Roswell (pop. 25,000). Argued Robinson: "Church and state must be kept separate ... [In Roswell], the students know that on Wednesday morning at 8:15, religious services will be held upon their public-school grounds. Their principal has so announced on Tuesday . . . That there is no direct duty to attend may not be an answer [to the question of legality...
...next week, at the drop of the starter's green flag, some 80 crash-helmeted drivers will break into a dash across the concrete runway of an abandoned airfield and pile into their sports cars. The whining racket of racing engines will shatter the Sabbath, and the little (pop. 5,000) town of Sebring, Fla. will come alive to the excitement of the fifth annual Florida International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance...
Residents of Penticton (pop. 14,000) grow fruit to earn their living, but they live for hockey. On road trips the team is ferried by volunteer drivers in private cars; a women's auxiliary washes the players' jerseys and darns their socks. During the playoffs for the Canadian championship last May, when an elderly lady collapsed of a heart attack, she surprised no one with her last words: "Go see who scored that goal!" The entire team attended her funeral...