Word: chan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brien, 44, the literary critic and critical diplomat who was chief of the U.N.'s Katanga force until he resigned in a huff over British and French policy in the Congo. New post for Dr. O'Brien: the vice-chancellorship of the University of Ghana, under "Chan cellor" Kwame Nkrumah...
...Chan Daniels, 21. president of Wesleyan's International Relations Club, is tall, urbane and serious, and has lived most of his life in Argentina, wrhere his father sells Jeeps. Stephen Butts, 20. is the son of the director of International Studies at Columbia University's Teachers College. Short and barrel-chested, he uses crutches as a result of childhood polio, has been chief engineer on the campus radio station and announcer of home football games. David Fisher, 21, short, unkempt, slightly aloof, is the group's musical arranger and the only Highwayman who is seriously interested...
...reassure the U.S. top brass, Pak named a U.S. favorite as new Premier in General Chang's place. He is retired Lieut. General "Tiger" Song Yo Chan, 43, who as army chief of staff in May, 1960, pressured old President Syngman Rhee into resigning without a blood bath, then held the rioting students at bay until the nation calmed down. Song retired soon thereafter, has been studying politics and economics at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Last month the junta generals called him back to South Korea to serve as the new regime's Defense Minister...
...root-hole. In Turkey, a hoca (holy man) wets the dying man's throat with water-if a soul gets too thirsty as it climbs the hill of eternity, it will surely sell itself to the Devil for a cooling drink, In Yucatan, on the other hand, the Chan Kom tribesmen beat the dying with a rope and urge them to get on with...
...open all winter has been patented by Engineer Frank C. Ehinger, 79, of Adrian, Mich. Circular saws mounted like plow disks in front of the ship cut the ice. It is forced back up a ramp into the ship, crushed to cocktail-size chips and spewed clear of the chan nel through a pipe. Ehinger says an oil company, which he will not name, has bought the rights to build...