Word: 38th
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...medical bulletin came as many Spaniards were enjoying a long weekend in celebration of the 38th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War that brought Generalissimo Francisco Franco to power. "The illness from which the head of state has been suffering has today suffered a regression because of gastric complications," said the report from the medical center in Madrid, where Franco has been bedridden for the past two weeks. A few hours later, Franco, 81, formally handed over his powers as chief of state and head of the armed forces to Prince Juan Carlos de Borb...
...should like to introduce the case of my mother country, Korea, as an example. Twenty years after the armistice, that unhappy Land of Morning Calm remains divided. U.S. armed forces are still stationed south of the 38th parallel to protect an absolute police-state regime. As long as this situation prevails Korean society will be demoralized and the suffering, restless people will be pushed deeper into repression and despair. But their endurance is not unlimited. In order to stay in power, the unpopular Park Chung Hee regime is desperately trying to tie the U.S. down in Korea...
...38th Step...
...38th step in the stop-smoking program should be: Smoke only in the shower...
More than ever, it was the year of the investigator, the unmasker of official secrets and official wrongdoing. The New York Times won its 38th prize, this time in the "public service" category, for publishing the Pentagon papers. Neil Sheehan, the reporter to whom Daniel Ellsberg gave the documents and who wrote the principal analytical articles, received no individual recognition. Apparently the jurors felt that the Times's courage in printing the material in the face of Government legal pressure was the crucial element. Yet Columnist Jack Anderson (TIME cover, April 3) won the national reporting prize for obtaining...