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...told police, "after a while I became sleepy." Across the compartment Truoc Nguyen Huu, a well-to-do Vietnamese businessman who had spent half of his 45 years in France, removed his shoes and socks. "When I woke up," Huguette told police, "I found my fellow traveler's toe in my left hand. I moved my hand at once. Then I seemed to go off to sleep again, and when I came to I discovered that man's toes in my mouth." That, of course, was only the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Bonbon Affairs | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...many female passengers on the St.-Gervais express to whom Huu was similarly attentive. For a year Huu was a regular weekend commuter on the train. Half a dozen women lodged complaints at various French police stations, but the police did not take them seriously, and Huu remained toe-loose and fancy-free. The end came with a statuesque 23-year-old divorcee named Simone Boullin. Chocolates, toes, seduction-and poor Simone had ridden past her stop. Instead of disappearing, as was his practice, Huu gallantly accompanied her to a hotel room in Le Fayet to comfort her while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Bonbon Affairs | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

Last week in the grey stone courthouse at nearby Bonneville, Huu was found guilty of "outraging public decency" and "administering substances dangerous to the health." Sentence: ten months-one for each toe. When he gets out, remarked Defense Attorney Joseph Faletti cheerfully, he should have no trouble at all finding a job: "Monsieur Huu is a very bright man, a very mysterious one. He will make a fine candidate for Premier of South Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Bonbon Affairs | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...Toe-to-Toe...

Author: By Stephen L. Cotler, | Title: Quincy Wins Interhouse Boxing | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

Wilson pressed Youngs for the first two rounds, causing him to backpeddle constantly, but threw very few punches. In the third round, Youngs stopped backing up and battled Wilson toe-to-toe. The referee scored that round a draw, but awarded the fight to Wilson, giving Adams House all of its five points...

Author: By Stephen L. Cotler, | Title: Quincy Wins Interhouse Boxing | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

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