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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French, but Dulles was against it, and the President vetoed this plan; subsequently, the French handed over North Viet Nam (pop. 14 million) to Communism. But after that, the U.S. haltingly, then decisively, threw U.S. support to a shaky new Nationalist government in South Viet Nam, helped negotiate and set up a brand new Southeast Asia Treaty Organization ("Pactomania," said the critics) that has faced up to Communism in Southeast Asia ever since...
This odd inquisition was set up by Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, 67, articulate firebrand of his church's liberal wing. Although the bishops talked with Texas' Lyndon Johnson (Christian Church), with Quaker-born (Presbyterian-attending) Richard Nixon, and Congregationalist (Methodist-attending) Hubert Humphrey, only Candidate Kennedy was quizzed on the church-and-state issues...
Sighting. Norway's General Johnsen, nevertheless, knew just what to do. He telephoned his friend Knut Deinboll, director of the Great Norwegian Mining Co. at Longyearbyen (pop. 800). Deinboll, a former Norwegian air force flyer, had two hours to set up a search. He flashed the mining company's office at the sister village of Ny-Alesund (pop. 1,000), then set out to rouse the sleeping villagers of Longyearbyen. He organized a dozen ski patrols of two and three men each, assigned them to nearby mountain lookout positions. Soon three men rushed back from their patrol...
...burglary), sometime poem scribbler, and the prison yard's most flagrant homosexual. Nor did they change the attitude of Myles's closest friend, willowy, 19-year-old Lee Smart, who at 16 got 30 years for clubbing a man to death. Last week the pair conspired to set off one of the most harrowing riots in the recent years of trouble in the nation's prisons...
...family business: prostitution. At first they were successful in a small way, with a chain of North African brothels. But when they aimed at bigger things, there was trouble: Salvatore Messina was jailed in Egypt for six months, and when the other brothers-Alfredo, Eugene, Attilio, Carmello-tried to set up houses in France, Spain and Italy, they ran afoul of competitors...