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...Darlings." In a succession of bills, Mme. Nhu banned prostitution, contraceptives, abortion, organized animal fights and taxi dancing. Referring to the war, she said, "Dancing with death is enough." In Saigon, "twist easies" began to spring up, and criticism mounted that Mme. Nhu was trying to impose rigid Catholic standards on South Viet Nam's easygoing sexual mores. She herself used to go swimming at the fashionable Cercle Sportif. but stayed away when she saw too many bikinis. Even some government officials privately said that the morality crusade resulted only in increased and unnecessary public hostility toward the Diem regime...
...other elusive subject is Morris Markin, who learned how to keep his mouth shut during the taxi wars in Chicago in the lurid 1920s. For 31 weeks, Chicago Correspondent Miriam Rumwell got the run-around when she tried to reach him. Finally she turned up at his Checker cab factory in Kalamazoo, was told by David Markin that he didn't know his father's whereabouts. But after a two-hour conversation, in which she apparently passed some kind of test, David asked, "Would you like to see my father?" Reports Miss Rumwell: "We went into a room...
...note to the embassy, urging the U.S. to force Diem to relent; U.S. Ambassador Frederick E. Nolting telephoned Vietnamese officials and got assurances that the man would not be molested. But no sooner had the monk left than secret police agents tried to spirit him away in a waiting taxi. The priest fought them off and raced back toward the U.S. embassy. A U.S. official dragged him to safety through the door as a husky Marine guard peeled a Vietnamese cop from the priest's back...
...They hurled stones at policemen, slashed car tires. Within the hour two more bombs exploded at the Gaston Motel, headquarters of the demonstrations. And Birmingham went to war. Thousands of enraged Negroes surged through the streets, flinging bricks, brandishing knives, pummeling policemen. A white cab driver was knifed, his taxi overturned and burned. A policeman was stabbed in the back and a white youngster's arm was slashed from shoulder to elbow. Negroes put a torch to a white man's delicatessen, fought off firemen as they arrived to put out the blaze. Two Negro homes nearby went...
...chauffeur? asked the prosecutor. That's it, Wynne replied. Exploded Penkovsky to the court: "This is a child's tale. Believe me, citizen judges, I cannot understand why Wynne tries to minimize his role. I didn't need a chauffeur. I could have taken a taxi." Truth was, said Penkovsky, he was already relaying film to British intelligence, and now was in touch with the Americans as well. In London he delivered two bulky packages of state secrets to Wynne, tried on British and U.S. colonels' uniforms just in case he decided to defect, even discussed...