Word: billing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...typical slam-bang effort to solve all his problems, 83-year-old President Rhee devised an omnibus security law that opponents, including the bar association, said was so loosely drawn that it could be used to silence all political protest. In a desperate effort to block the bill, 80 Assemblymen of the opposition Democratic Party barricaded themselves in the Assembly chamber for six days...
With the opposition out of the way, the pro-government group hurriedly called a plenary session and passed the security-law revisions bill by a unanimous vote of 128-0. For good measure, they rammed through 22 other bills, ranging from the 1959 budget to a bill that decrees that all mayors of South Korean cities, towns and villages will in the future be appointed by the government, not elected. The press was still free enough for the Seoul newspaper Donga Ilbo to declare: "In Korea, democracy died today...
...Akihito's new, 45-room palace for a kowtowing $27.78. Apparently more concerned with imperial honor than with imperial bargains, however, Tokyo's noisy newspapers uncorked howls that the bid was an "insulting courtesy." Result: the canny offer humbly withdrawn, no cut-rate building bill for the Finance Ministry...
...most celebrated undergraduate J-school in the nation - is marking its 50th anniversary of helping good smart kids. Missouri has turned out some 6,500 graduates, including U.P.I. Vice President and Washington Manager Lyle Wilson, Publisher Jack Flynn of the New York Daily News, and the late sportswriter Bill Corum of the Hearst papers...
Though no commercial oil has ever been found in Spain or Spanish possessions, geologists are almost unanimously optimistic. They think there is oil under the sands of the Spanish Sahara and Ifni (Spanish West Africa), and also in some areas of Spain itself. The bill also cheered U.S. businessmen, who hope that other foreign investments will be welcomed in Spain if drilling programs successfully bring in both dollars...