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...accept its permanence, French businessmen have been wooed instead of. warred on, and the last of the departing French troops, to their surprise, found themselves affectionately cheered. The French government still spends money on Vietnamese agriculture and the maintenance of 300 teachers in free French schools. The Cercle Sportif, once snootily for Europeans only, took in Mrs. Ngo Dinh Nhu, the attractive First Lady of Viet Nam (she is the bachelor President's sister...
...half-French, half-Italian father and a Cambodian mother, had quite another idea. Better, she thought, a real prince, even a Cambodian one with concubines, than a mere wage-earning European. A fragile and lovely center of interest in a bikini bathing suit by the pool at Le Cercle Sportif, Monique gave the cold shoulder to all European suitors and bided her time...
Progressively thereafter, he ordered the city's nightclubs to close at 2 a.m., regulated the striptease trade to extinction, and ordered the swimming pool at the Cercle Sportif, Asia's leading parade ground for bikinis, to close through the dry season...
Last Sunday, as he climbed to his new diving platform, he felt "as calm as when I sip a glass of liqueur after dinner." He plummeted down & down in a perfect swan dive. As he came up, blinking, the crowd cheered happily for their "cure sportif...
Social Customs. In the evening, a German Legionnaire stands at attention saluting the French tricolor as it flutters from a tall flagstaff. Another German Legionnaire hauls it down. It might be for the last time. But in the Cercle Sportif, the club by the river bank, the French continue to act as they have always done. The Chinese servant is still fairly polite, calls people Honorable or Venerable One as he shuffles around with bottles of cognac and Perrier water...