Word: thies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eighteen-year-old Coed Bui Thi Oanh was one who did not survive. Voltaire and Confucius confounded her, and she failed her baccalaureate. In shame and despair, she swallowed 40 quinine pills and died. Since her death several other teen-age rots have committed suicide, and last week one enraged rot attacked his mathematics examiner in the street...
...Senate approval, the Capitol': sandstone facing would be replaced with marble, and the whole facade, along with its imposing steps, which serve as the setting for presidential inaugurations would be moved about 40 feet forward bringing it more in line with the House and Senate wings. Besides repairing thi damage of time and weather, the remodeling would provide a broader base for thi Capitol's dome. More practically, the expansion plan would also provide space fo 42 extra office rooms, added restaurant facilities, one large hearing room and a private, i.e., tourist-free corridor connecting the House...
Married. Tran Trung Dung, 42, Vietnamese Deputy Minister for National Defense since March 1955; and Nguyen Thi Hoang Anh ("The Nightingale"), 21, doll-like niece of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem; in a Roman Catholic ceremony; in Hue, Viet...
...Iran, Bahai proselytizing has been a lot more real than in the State Department. Orthodox Moslems have long resented the inroads made by Bahaism among young intellectuals and government leaders-even including some Army generals, such as General Abdulkarim Ayadi, the Shah's own physician. Thi month's suppression of Bahai in Iran came after a steady campaign of anti-Bahai polemics by Moslem leaders during the month-long fast of Ramadan, tradtionally a time for political preaching in Islam. The Moslems forced the government to take over Bahai headquarter with troops, are hoping to close Bahai schools...
...decision of the faculty to permit women in the dorms until eleven o'clock on Saturday night seems very unsatisfactory to me, for in granting thi concession, they somehow felt obliged to subtract another eighteen hours during the week. Many of us have come to a appreciate these afternoon hours, especially on Friday afternoons when we were able to listen to the B.S.O. Concerts which begin at two, and on Saturday, when we were not obliged to go to the football games for something...