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...back, left shoulder and arm that dates from a 1937 auto accident. Bernhard was treated by Yong Keng-ngoh, a Chinese acupuncturist, and immediately felt better. Two months ago, again afflicted, Bernhard wrote to the Singapore doctor and was referred to Yong's son, Dr. Yong Chai-siow, of London's Harley Street. The younger Yong diagnosed the problem as constipation, not the accident's legacy. Yong worked his needles for two days, after which the patient, 60, proclaimed that he felt ten years younger...
...Real Targets. Strong, prospering and politically stable under the government of President Chung Hee Park, South Koreans nonetheless worry about national morale. North Korea's downing of the U.S. EC-121 electronic intelligence plane two weeks ago set off cries for quick retaliation. Kim Chai Soon, spokesman for the ruling Democratic Republican Party, says that "the U.S. should have at least bombed the North Korean air base from which the MIGs took off to attack the plane...
...burden. He is fond of the indolent Siamese town of Luang Nakon, where he makes his headquarters. He likes the routine of his work and the evening drinks at the run-down sahibs' club. He enjoys his friendship with the only non-white member of the club, Major Chai Wut, the police chief. But in 1953, John Crane faces upheaval, knows it and resents it. "Why are they telling us to go?" he asks Major Chai. "I don't only mean us, the English, but white men everywhere...
...major's answer sets the underlying mood of Briton Norman Lewis' knowledgeable novel about one sahib's last stand in the Far East. Framing his reply as "what others are saying," Major Chai says: "The white man by his teaching created a demand for justice, and as soon as the demand was existing, removed this product from the market...
...youth, Rhee had attended the Pai Chai Methodist Mission school, and now the missionaries and their wives visited him in jail. There he became converted to Christianity. When the Japanese took over Korea in 1904, Rhee was released in a general amnesty and immediately went to the U.S. For six years he studied in American universities, got an M.A. from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Princeton. Back in Korea, while heading up a Korean Christian student movement, he began undercover agitation against the Japanese. When the conquerors got his number, he slipped off to Hawaii...