Word: thuy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With a rustle of rich brocade and a swish of scented silk, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu swept into the U.S. last week. She was accompanied by her handsome, 18-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, and preceded by some of the worst press notices since Tokyo Rose. Although not even her bitterest critics would doubt her courage, the petite sister-in-law of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem did have some fears about her 21-day coast-to-coast visit. Going to the U.S., said she, would probably be like walking into "a cage of lions...
...four children have given her a great deal of pleasure. "My elder daughter Le Thuy," Mme. Nhu gestured at the lovely seventeen-year-old who sat, poised and relaxed, across the room, "is not only a good deal taller than me--surely a sign of progress [In three inch heels Mme. Nhu stood under five feet]--but she will soon enter medical school in Vietnam. My other daughter [five years old] I expect will also have a career. But all my children shall do as they wish. I would have preferred Le Thuy to have been a lawyer...
...Thuy complains," Mme Nhu glanced at her daughter, "that I have a smile for everyone and save only my exhaustion for her. And now she would make me rest, if not for the business we must still attend to." It was time for the Law School Forum...
...travels was to "disperse all misunderstandings " about her country and the regime headed by her brother-in-law, Ngo Dinh Diem. Sounding like St. Joan in a slit skirt, Viet Nam's fiery First Lady announced that she and her doe-eyed, 17-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, would carry the crusade to the U.S. where she said she would "reeducate Americans" from coast to coast. Sample Nhuances...
...Nhus were married in 1943. She converted from Buddhism to her husband's Catholic faith, today says that "the sacraments are my moral vitamins." Her daughter, Le Thuy, was born in 1946, and was followed by sons Trac and Quyhn, and daughter Le Quyen. Candidly Mme. Nhu admits that she has "never had a sweeping love. I read about such things in books, but I do not believe that they really exist. Or perhaps only for a very few people...