Word: van
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. The split of a suburban couple (Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds) provokes some tart dialogue: "The uranium mine to her, the shaft...
...huff, they flew back to Saigon and held a press conference. There they blamed the mix-up on their military rivals, Chief of State General Nguyen Van Thieu and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, who, they said, were sabotaging the campaign...
...Dong Ha incident," they said, was as bad as Ky's refusal to let General Duong Van Minh return from Thailand to campaign for the presidency...
There was also a suggestion that nine of the candidates were ready to withdraw in favor of Tran Van Huong, 63, the onetime Premier (1965) who is the front-running civilian candidate. Such coordinated action, however, seemed improbable. "How can we unite?" asked Presidential Candidate Ha Thuc Ky (no kin to the Premier). "We all have different policies and different numbers of followers...
...four more performances. The talented 35-year-old composer set the work aside for eight years. Then he undertook extensive revisions. "Hardly a musical number has been left unchanged," he wrote to a Vienna newspaper, "ard more than half the opera was composed anew." Finally, in May 1814, Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, Fidelia, was produced again at a different Vienna theater-and immediately became...