Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wily, wealthy Tran Van Van, 58, a kind of Oriental John C. Calhoun, last week was working to weld the 44 southern delegates into a cohesive bloc. It will be hard work, for the southerners include military men and members of such disparate groups as the Cao Dai, the Hoa Hao, the Dai Viet party, and a new "Movement for the Renaissance of the South." Should Van succeed, he will have the largest regional grouping in the Assembly (northerners account for 27 seats, central Vietnamese for 28). Cutting across regional lines, Dr. Phan Quang Dan, 48, and his new "Rising...
...Korean Model. The 20-member bloc of officers elected as delegates was being courted by such civilians as Publisher-Physician Dang Van Sung, 51, who hopes to drive a wedge between Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and his uniformed delegates. "They want to be civilians," said Sung of the military Assemblymen. "That's why they ran." In the headquarters of the ruling directorate of generals, five separate constitutional drafts were circulating; and the generals themselves were busy choosing sides for the presidential power struggle that lies ahead once a constitution is written. Ky and his chief of state Thieu were...
...most engaging subject is the fourth in the series - Swarthmore Col lege Astronomer Peter van de Kamp, 64, who in 1963 discovered "Barnard's Star B," the first planet outside the solar system. The program opens with Amateur Composer Van de Kamp at the pi ano, playing one of his own works; then he gets up, kisses his wife goodbye, throws on a scarf, and heads out for a hard night's day at the observatory, where the camera briskly retraces the hours of patient study that led Van de Kamp to his revolutionary discovery...
...behind the granite-sheathed fagade of Manhattan's new Whitney Museum of American Art. Even in a time that has seen museum design change from the Roman palazzos favored by turn-of-the-century architects to the spiraling extravaganza of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim, and Mies van der Rohe's austere glass cube for Houston's Museum of Fine Arts, the $6,000,000 Whitney, designed by Marcel Breuer and Hamilton Smith, was the event and talk of the evening...
Harvard's hard-luck cross-country team evened its season record in one glorious swoop by clobbering Pennsyivants, 17-39, and Columbia, 22-39, in a triangular meet yesterday afternoon at New York's Van Cortlandt Park...