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Shake & Shock. Plainly, some of Ky's moves were more gestures than policies. Paris reacted to the cutting of diplomatic ties with characteristic hauteur, but showed no signs of withdrawing its cultural and economic missions in Saigon. De Gaulle's only reported comment was to inquire loftily: "Qui est Ky?" It will take more than a few executions to cure the corruption that plagues Saigon and most other Asian capitals. Moreover, price controls on rice and other consumer goods do not get to the root of the problem: scarcities caused by Viet Cong control of roads between farming...
...Westmoreland is a very symbolic name, but remember that "Qui veut tout n'aura rien...
...place where a you-who might help, it is missing. Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis has been translated as "Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us." Better grammar might have been to change "take" to "takes." Many Catholic missals say "takest," but the makers of this Mass tried to avoid thee-thy-thou forms. Nevertheless they slipped up: the Lord's Prayer still goes, "Thy kingdom come." Other parts have a ring of transliteration, rather than translation, from Latin. "Priests who translate the Mass have a tendency...
Mexico's most popular guessing game in recent months has started with the phrase, "Quién es el tapado?"-Who is the hooded one? In other words, what man was the all-powerful Party of Revolutionary Institutions (P.R.I.) secretly choosing to be the country's next President? Last week the guessing was over. The P.R.I.'s choice is Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, 52, Secretary of Government in the Cabinet of incumbent President Adolfo López Mateos. Diaz Ordaz' title obscured his real importance. As a combination Interior Minister and Home Secretary...
Apres de Gaulle, qui? goes France's favorite guessing game. Who indeed? Though le grand Charles has often hinted that he would like to retire when his term expires in 1965, he has carefully avoided designating his heir. Last week De Gaulle finally ended the suspense. At Orange, his first stop on a five-day stump tour of the eastern Rhone valley, he declared oracularly: "The essential thing for Charles de Gaulle, President of the Republic, is to know what the French people want. I have the impression that I have discerned this for a quarter of a century...