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...politely telling French and Vietnamese intriguers that Diem, for all his weaknesses, was America's man, and that they had better get behind Diem if they wanted U.S. sympathy or assistance. The Vietnamese national army, he indicated, must give up any thought of a coup d'état against Diem. At week's end Diem's mutinous chief of staff, Nguyen Van Hinh, packed his bags and moved off to Paris for "consultations...
...procession of pelicans, into the governor's chair, led by Arthur James, whose conservatism extended to his high-button shoes. In 1946 it came the turn of James Duff, a bristle-thatched bird of another feather. Midway in his term, Duff led a coup d'état against Boss Joe Grundy and his Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Association. In 1950, what was left of Pennsylvania's Republican power was picked up by a group of county leaders called the Blue Bell Boys (because they held strategy dinners at the Blue Bell Inn, north of Philadelphia). The Blue Bell...
...captain-that is suddenly thrown into the Battle of the Bulge. Loathed by his men, the captain gets by with his ambition-ridden colonel because he is the son of an influential political boss in the colonel's home state. To the rumble of tanks and the rat-tat-tat of gunfire, the gutless captain wobbles, crosses up his men, plots to run out on the job, and is finally shot by his most levelheaded subordinate...
...rates. Last summer Migros bought the Turissia sewing-machine factory, cut prices about 13% and has since doubled output. Migros also provides evening schools for adults, runs a book club with 37,000 members, distributes long-playing records at discounts of 42% to 50%, publishes the Zurich daily Die Tat (circ. 35,000), has helped finance such Swiss movies as Marie-Louise, The Last Chance, Four in a Jeep and Heidi...
...minor weakness of King of Hearts is that its cracks come with a slightly too metallic and rat-tat-tat regularity. The more serious weakness is that what little story there is should additionally-in a play that makes mincemeat of clichés-use so many plot cliches itself. Where the wit is so true and the satire so topical, it seems a pity that such sharp pins should jab, in the end, little more than a pincushion...