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...square in front of the Assembly, and in the reviewing stands waited the representatives of 22 nations, headed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey. As a 21-gun salute from a howitzer boomed across the capital, Thieu and Ky, clad in business suits, arrived in twin Mercedes 300s to be sworn...
Thieu and Ky were to be sworn in outside the onetime opera house that now is the home of the National Assembly, whose lower chamber was elected last week in nationwide balloting. Nearly 73% of the electorate turned out to choose a 137-man House of Representatives from among some 1,200 candidates. South Viet Nam thus completed the edifice of the new civilian government-the fifth and final exercise of popular franchise in the war-torn country within the past 14 months...
Harvard Law School dean emeritus Erwin N. Griswold, hailed by President Johnson as one of the nation's foremost lawyers, was sworn in as Solicitor General yesterday in Washington...
...cities, the Lower House will, for the first time, give the people of the countryside a voice in the Saigon government. The new House is also expected to reflect the country's Buddhist majority, thus offsetting the heavy Catholic representation in the 60-man Senate, which was formally sworn into office this week...
...that time, Sandy had got some solidity in her life. She had always sworn better dead than wed ("My life is on that stage; I am an actress; I can't do both"). But in June 1965, after three weeks' courtship, she married one of the pathfinding composers of modern jazz, Baritone Saxophonist Gerry Mulligan, now 40. Curiously, Mulligan had been the last love of the tragicomedienne most often likened to Sandy, Judy Holliday, who had just died of cancer. One dissonant note: Sandy is tone-deaf, ignorant of jazz, and the only records she owned were...