Word: aimed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Modest Aim. Rhee's old civilian hierarchy had it tougher. Eight of Rhee's eleven Cabinet ministers were indicted last week on charges of election fraud, and also in jail or under questioning were a Supreme Court judge, two former police directors, two bank governors, three provincial governors, an ex-mayor of Seoul and 21 other high-ranking officials of Rhee's Liberal Party. Former Defense Minister Shin Sung Mo, accused of involvement in political assassinations, fell dead of a stroke in the midst of his interrogation. In the National Assembly, 104 out of 138 Liberal members...
President Huh's modest aim is to maintain a semblance of public order and to keep the discredited Assembly alive long enough to write a new constitution and dissolve for elections. So far Huh has gotten his way with the Assembly by threatening to resign if balked, a device that has worked chiefly because nobody else wants to assume his thankless job. But whether it will continue to work is anybody's guess. Says one Korean moderate nervously: "If the Assembly dissolves before the new constitution becomes law, there will be no authority left in this country...
...freshmen if they do well in the twelfth grade. He concedes one objection: it might only begin the multiple-application problem one year earlier. Yet the idea resembles the "early-decision" plan successfully but sparingly used by many select women's colleges. They pick superior eleventh-graders who aim at one particular college from the start; this year 25% of Wellesley's freshmen entered under the plan...
...used to set up 75 four-year scholarships (average cost: $1,000 a year) for the ablest youngsters O.C.U. can find. Score card to date: 21 scholarships, awarded to high school seniors throughout Oklahoma and Texas. Casting a bit of sarcasm at Oklahoma U.. Oilman McGee said: "We aim to recruit bright students just like Bud Wilkinson recruits that football team...
...trailed Jesse Jones's Chronicle in circulation-in 1947, was given a relatively free hand by Mrs. Hobby. He livened the layout, raided the rival Houston Press for top talent, strengthened the Post's coverage of both state and national news. In 1958 he hired Donahue, whose aim was simple: "The Post already had the intellectuals; we wanted to go out and get the rest...