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...that was about all the fighting that got done. The royal army did advance about 15 miles on the road north of Vientiane, but only because the Pathet Lao withdrew. The Pathet Lao took the small town of Tha Thom in central Laos after the royal army fled. U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Harry Felt himself flew into Udon to try to buck up the pro-Western army chief, General Phoumi Nosavan-but with no noticeable results. Complained one military man in Vientiane: "This is war, dammit, but the Laotians are just not willing to risk getting killed. They...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). "Signs of Spring," a musical med ley with Birgit Nilsson, John Raitt, Mar tha Wright, Paul Hartman. Color...
Just Begun. Perhaps the key to her career, says Teacher Kimball, is that "she's never defeated by things that haven't gone right." Her Thaïs reviews in Chicago two years ago were not good, and Miss Kimball stayed over to read them with her, warning that they were disappointing. "What do they say about my voice?" asked Leontyne. "They say you have a great voice," said Miss Kimball. "All right, then," said Leontyne. "The rest I can learn, and I will...
...Dooley built his first hospital at Nam Tha, a tiny Laotian village just five miles south of the Red China border, and his second at Muong Sing, 20 mi. to the northwest. He handled as many as 100 outpatients a day, wrote two more books (The Edge of Tomorrow, The Night They Burned the Mountain), and recklessly shrugged off the possibility of ambush as he pushed his Jeep through guerilla-infested jungle on daily house calls. A grateful Laotian government awarded Dooley its highest decoration: the Order of a Million Elephants. When critics argued Dooley...
...what most of them produce is "worth" the upkeep of their studies and the amount of departmental stationery they consume. It is still very sad that these dull old men, the scholars, are not attracted in any way to the undergraduates. (It is sad if only because it implies tha undergraduates may just be dull young...