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Word: saigon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fabled fleshpots of Asia-Saigon, Bangkok, Shanghai-are vanishing before the stern puritanism of new nationalistic leaders. A sordid exception was tiny Kowloon City, a kind of Asian casbah six acres in size on the tip of the mainland opposite Hong Kong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Law in the Jungle | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...quiet evening in the sleepy little town of Bien Hoa 20 miles north of Saigon, base camp for the South Vietnamese crack 7th Infantry Division and its eight-man U.S. Military Assistance Advisory Group. The presence of the Americans symbolized one of the main reasons why South Viet Nam, five years ago a new nation with little life expectancy, is still independent and free and getting stronger all the time-to the growing chagrin of Communists in neighboring North Viet Nam. Since the beginning of 1959,Communist infiltrators have stepped up their campaign of terrorism, assassinating an average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Death at Intermission Time | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...place. As the darkness gathered, the men of the orchestra took their places, and promptly at 8 p.m. the conductor raised his baton. Moments later one more corner of Asia was introduced to the strange and wondrous sounds of a live Western symphony orchestra. Occasion: a first concert in Saigon, Viet Nam, by Manhattan's touring Little Orchestra Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Gifts to the Orient | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

Agaganian's monthlong, 11,000-mile Far Eastern tour began fortnight ago in Saigon, where he presided over South Viet Nam's first Marian Congress. South Viet Nam's 1,150,000 Catholics, including President Ngo Dinh Diem, are a small minority (total population: 15 million), but they are the best-organized religious group in a nation of strife-torn Buddhists. As he moved coolly through blazing heat, the 63-year-old cardinal in scarlet robes and wide-brimmed shepherd's hat was a symbol eyed by the entire nation. Thousands of non-Catholics lined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cardinal in Asia | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

When the cardinal celebrated Mass early one morning at Saigon's brown brick cathedral, the surrounding streets were jammed with curious onlookers who had slept all night on the pavements. As he held public prayers for Communist North Viet Nam's "church of silence" (430,000 Catholics under Red rule), refugees from the north streamed into the city for a look at the Pope's emissary. To kindle morale where it is under great stress-along the smoldering Chinese border-Agaganian tirelessly inspected Catholic schools, hospitals, refugee camps, convents, seminaries and nurseries. Said a Vietnamese priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cardinal in Asia | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

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