Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risen, so have the ranks of the foreign press corps (which currently totals some 200) and the strain on the severely limited communications facilities. This week, word traffic out of Saigon is vastly improved, thanks largely to the ingenuity and cooperation of three men - Director General Nguyen Van Dieu of Viet Nam's Administration des Postes et Télécommunications, RCA Communications, Inc. Vice President Charles H. Clark, and Time Inc. Communications Manager John F. Striker...
...French Riviera, mixes chamber music with the murmur of the sea. Performances are held in the centuries-old square of St. Michel's Church, which affords a panoramic view of the surrounding lemon groves and the port. Highlights include concerts by Pianists Byron Janis and Van Cliburn and a Schubert recital by Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf...
...makes her headquarters in a narrow, 71-story town house on Manhattan's fashionable Beekman Place. White, even to the furniture and the rugs on the floor, is the background -her paintings. There is a Monet a Picasso, a Lautrec. Five Matisses hang in the dining room; Van Gogh's Zouave over the living room couch faces a Renoir girl in a boat over the fireplace...
...Master Plan. Through his world of Van Goghs and vegetables, Simon, at 58, moves always with an "anything happen?" frenzy and a vigor that both irritates and impresses those around him. Even Aide Jack Clumeck says: "I cannot imagine spending seven days a week with this fellow. After a threeor four-day trip with him, I have to take a few days off. He is just that intense and probing." As a man of a reflective nature, however, Norton Simon knows that neither activity?nor acquisitiveness?are ends in themselves. "He is not interested in leaving a huge fortune," says...
Just how the government uncovered the plot was purposely left unclear, but an army captain was gunned down "trying to escape," and more than 40 "dissidents" were arrested, most of them Catholic. Among them, according to one report: Colonel Trang Van Chinh, chief of military security. Still at large, however, were General Lam Van Phat and Colonel Pham Ngoc Thao, ringleaders of the February attempt, who are under sentence of death following trial in absentia...