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Every pressroom has him-the unobtrusive character who is not a professional newsman but who is always around, his duties uncertain, his status undetermined, tolerated and even liked by the pros. But few can boast a more memorable character than Vo Song Thiet, a tiny, bespectacled Vietnamese who bicycled into Geneva in 1954 and has been a fixture of the Palais des Nations' pressroom ever since...
...with quick changes and buoyant tunes. The first Met diva to have her own TV series, Patrice opened with wit, authority, bounce and ten costume changes. She gave plenty of evidence that she can handle a TV repertory that will probably extend all the way from Verdi to Vo...
Lest one might think from this that the Vassar girl's life is a mere round of spineless play, one is presented with a solemn full page of "Traditions:" "Salve" (a Latin greeting, not an ointment), which sings the praises of Seniors, vi-vo-vi-vo-vum; Tree Day, on which the Class of '61 must pounce upon a helpless and diseased elm and claim it as its own, thus "leaving its name with Vassar forever;" and such other unique traditions as Convocation and Matriculation...
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...beginning the discomfited French had feared that should the deadline pass the Communists would start up the Indo-China war again. But three weeks ago North Viet Nam's Vice President Vo Nguyen Giap, the Communist victor of Dienbienphu, swallowed the new soft line: "The competition between North and South," he said, "will be on the same basis as the world competition now existing between socialism and capitalism...