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Subsequent events were almost a ritual. There was the usual nighttime powwow by the angered officers. Before dawn the next day, Sunday-it seems to be always on Sunday-there were ominous troop movements in Saigon. Reportedly the operation was directed by Brigadier General Nguyen Chanh Thi, the mustached, intense commander of the I Corps in the northern region, and Air Vice Marshal Nguyen Cao Ky, who affects harlequin glasses and a pearl-handled revolver. Squads of police sped through Saigon's darkened streets, arresting seven council members and a dozen-odd politicians and student leaders...
...warnings from London, Smith last month called a special referendum of the colony's 90,000 white and 10,000 African voters, to be held this week. Even more ominously, he arranged to "take the opinion" of the other 3,690,000 blacks by calling an indaba, a powwow of their 622 tribal chiefs and headmen-most of them grizzled old men whose primary loyalties are to their government paychecks...
...once, Ev Dirksen was speechless. Leaving the first powwow of Illinois' Republican Convention delegates in suburban Chicago last week, he plowed head down through a crowd of newsmen, got into a car and drove off without saying a word...
Whatever else Albania's Red Boss Enver Hoxha might be, he has proved himself a spunky fellow. Who else would dare walk into the big international Communist powwow in Moscow last November and call Nikita Khrushchev a "revisionist" to his face? Indeed, Hoxha's blasphemy went even farther, according to a partial transcript of his speech that reached the outside world last week...
curious." Speaking at a Pacific Coast writer's powwow, Emmy-winning TV Producer David Susskind, moderator of his own 10 p.,m.-to-sometime chitchat program (Open End), beamed out in the New York City area, was asked which of three presidential candidates on his recent shows came on as the strongest interviewee. Liberal Democrat Susskind gave Liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller the poorest marks: "He evaded and dodged every effort to get him to substantiate what he had said in public only a few days earlier." Another disheartening performer was Democrat Adlai Stevenson: "I approached him with something like...