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Nightly Visitors. But as South Viet Nam faced the new Communist assault, Western observers were uneasy at Diem's failure to win enthusiastic support for his regime. The dissatisfaction is not organized, and it has no outstanding spokesmen. It takes the form of grumbling and snide criticism around Saigon's café tables, a sense of apathy among the peasants. Much of it centers on the character of Diem himself...
...flacks as a "millionaire" or even "rich" (nonetheless, he is wealthy). Since Jane is off Broadway, the playhouse's 175 seats were his for only $300. One extra: Perky, whose father was Princeton 1881, slipped Actor Monroe Arnold a ten-spot to change the target of a snide remark from Old Nassau to Yale...
Overnight, on cue, critics in the Moscow press toned down their hitherto snide comments about the American exhibition, Pravda trotted out improbable quotes by metal workers and locksmiths applauding Eisenhower's invitation, and Americans in Moscow began getting telephone calls and visits from former Russian friends who had been silent for years...
Racing on the Thames River, four Crimson yachtsmen will compete in another regatta tomorrow at Coast Guard. Co-skippers Dave Gill and Larry Snide-man will race against Boston University, Coast Guard, Holy Cross, MIT, Providence and Wesleyan...
Scholastically, she was at the top of her class. A tremendous organizer, Michiko was elected president of the student governing committee and began to be called sotsu-no-nai, which roughly means "perfect," but also has a snide connotation of being a little too perfect, too ladylike, too obedient to the rules. A professor once said with a touch of asperity: "Michiko-san, your only defect is that you have none." She appeared taken aback by the remark...