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Almost exactly five years ago, South Korean students swept into the streets of Seoul for a week of rioting that finally brought the downfall of Syngman Rhee. Last week students were on the rampage again with the same strident tone of reckless abandon. First, 2,000 chanting collegians traded stones for tear gas with mesh-masked police. Three days later, a mob of 6,000 swarmed through the capital's main streets. On and on it went, until the daily demonstrations mushroomed to 10,000 youths in Seoul, with lesser eruptions in other cities as well...
...School may finally abandon its traditional "rolling admissions" policy for a modified form of the College's one-date procedure...
...closed culture of Harlem is really a set of defenses. Violence and sexual abandon arise as the most natural outlets for courage and energy among limited alternatives. They are last resorts, founded on a certain despair. But Duke radiates the glamor of a criminal and debauchee without knowing the suffering. He and his gang act out the forms laid down by their elders, without yet knowing...
...about his second strip when United Feature sketched in a black eye Patty gave Charlie. Recently, United objected to the Peanuts sequence in which Linus' blanket attacks the other Peanuts. "That's monster stuff," complained United Feature's President Laurence Rutman, who prevailed on Schulz to abandon eight strips. "It's not the real you." In retaliation, Schulz bought a baby blanket, drew a monster on it saying "Boo!" and sent it to Rutman. Replied Rutman in a thank-you note: "It's chasing me around the office...
...appease the discontent-and to keep their own jobs-many labor leaders have been forced to abandon responsible restraint at the bargaining table. "It used to be considered a compliment to be called a labor statesman," says Charles Levey, a vice president of the Building Service Employees International. "But if they call you that now, it means you're finished...