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Even so, there were times last week when her corner must have seemed a lonely place. As curiosity about the sister-in-law of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem began to ebb in the second week of her 21-day tour, sympathetic crowds dwindled, officials cold-shouldered her, and about the only people who turned out to see her were newsmen and students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nobody Home | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

...scented silk, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu swept into the U.S. last week. She was accompanied by her handsome, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, and preceded by some of the worst press notices since Tokyo Rose. Although not even her bitterest critics would doubt her courage, the petite sister-in-law of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem did have some fears about her 21-day coast-to-coast visit. Going to the U.S., said she, would probably be like walking into "a cage of lions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: In the Lions' Cage | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu of South Vietnam carries her private campaign for United States support into Cambridge today. The sister-in-law of strongarm President Diem will arrive at Logar airport sometime after 4 p.m. and will speak tonight at the Law school Forum...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madame Nhu To Speak At 'Cliffe, Forum | 10/14/1963 | See Source »

Selling Arms. In one of those intramural feuds common to European family-controlled industries, relations between the former actress and her prideful mother-in-law and her sister-in-law, the Duchess of Brissac, had been strained for a decade. Last June the two stunned Liliane by quietly selling their Schneider shares (about 8% of the total) to a Belgian group led by Baron Edouard Empain, 49, head of Belgium's big Electrorail holding company. The baron, whose family helped exploit the Congo for Belgium and promoted the Paris Metro system, is a grand-scale investor and industrialist with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Schneider Affair | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

Madame Ngo Dinh Nhu, the attractive and controversial sister-in-law of South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem, will address the Harvard Law School Forum Oct. 14, David I. Faust, administrative vice-president of the Forum said last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Madame Nhu Will Address Forum Here | 10/5/1963 | See Source »

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