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...enemy-are wasting the strength of the Vietnamese forces as well as the $1,500,000 a day the U.S. is pumping into the country. These experts will not be happy until the government can organize regular "search and hold" operations in the southern rice country, Communism's stronghold...
Rope Trick. The crackdown in Saigon was duplicated all over South Viet Nam, and more than 1,000 people were imprisoned. In the Buddhist stronghold of Hué, the approach of government troops was signaled by the beating of temple drums and the clashing of cymbals calling for help. Beating pots and pans to rouse their neighbors, the angry populace poured from homes and raced to defend the city's temples. At Tu Dam Pagoda, monks tried to burn the coffin of a priest who had burned himself alive in the Buddhist suicide protest wave. But government soldiers, firing...
...when Best Foot Forward's curtain goes up this week, that famous curtain of hair will once again come down over the right eye, as Veronica steps into the lead of the off-Broadway revival. Since her last movie, Stronghold, in 1952, the 43-year-old actress hasn't done much -"some summer stock and a little TV," plus a hostessing stint in a friend's Manhattan restaurant. Fittingly, she's playing a faded movie star, and she's not a bit bashful about it: "It's more or less doing a take...
Many Tories who voted Liberal out of dissatisfaction with the government will undoubtedly return to the fold at the next general election. Nonetheless, the drop in Tory strength in a Tory stronghold was a sobering confirmation that the party will have a rough time in the national elections, which, as a result, will probably not be held until spring...
...staunch Tory stronghold, Stratford returned Profumo in 1959 with a massive, 14,129-vote margin over a Labor opponent. Though Maude last week was the odds-on favorite, fellow Tories feared that the presence of a vigorous Liberal candidate and two extremists in the race might seriously cut into Conservative strength. Maude was helped by a gentleman's agreement among all the candidates to avoid dragging Profumo into the campaign. In any event, the great majority of voters seemed unperturbed by disclosures of vice in high places...