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...owner of the Johnson Bus Lines nodded to the driver, then settled back into a seat behind his employee to await the hour and a half ride back toward Boston and Dunster House...
...wishes. Government favors can be obtained only through Rhee and this circle of his intimates. All foreign exchange allocations for more than $500, for example, must be personally approved by Rhee. Imposed to ensure the strictest honesty in government operations, this control has its drawbacks: important decisions inevitably await the President's approval, and when he is incapacitated they await his recovery. Said a Rhee official last week: "When the old man is sick, Korea is sick...
However, certain pitfalls await any clergyman, regardless of stature, who steps into active direction of a secular institution. Since he will be a Protestant, he must realize that many Catholic and Jewish students will have already pitched one strike past him. Thus, he will have to do more than smother the natural desire of any clergyman to propagate the creed he has been trained in. He must go out of his way to assure that any "religious guidance" he dispenses represents the lowest common denominator of credo--in fact, no more than the same social gospel PBH has represented...
...British Isles and the Low Countries. Dikes crumbled. Whole islands, villages, cities were swept underwater. Ships sank at sea and capsized in ports-even at docks. Rivers writhed and burst their banks. Over a million fled. Other thousands clutched rooftops or twirled crazily on rafts and small boats to await rescue or death. Other hundreds died-too swiftly to be counted at once...
After 21 distinguished months as full commander in Korea and close to 42 years in the Army as cadet and officer, rugged, flat-flanked General James Alward Van Fleet got the order that all soldiers await when they pass 60: report to Washington preparatory to retirement. His successor as commander of the Eighth Army: Lieut. General Maxwell D. Taylor...