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...There, crammed into a single room with his wife and two sons, Lee sought vainly for a way of escaping the net that was closing in on him. To a close friend Lee confided: "Rhee has ordered me to resign my post. If I do so, my enemies will crush me to earth, and my family will find themselves living on rice crumbs and water." His younger son, Lee Kong Wook, 18, urged that the men of the family meet their enemies in the streets and die fighting. To his elder son, Army Lieut. Lee Kang...
...mainly in New Haven. After Yale ('23), he ricocheted into the academic world with a Ph.D. in economics. In the '30s he was a quasi-Marxist (teaching at Harvard, Sarah Lawrence, Williams) who viewed the U.S. as ripe for fascism. When the country survived, Lerner got a crush on it, three years ago produced a sweeping, vibrant, 1,036-page paean, America as a Civilization (Simon & Schuster; $10). Last fall the admiring Ford Foundation sent him for a year to Delhi University's Indian School of International Studies to soak graduate students in U.S. lore...
...steps in. As the report had it, Macmillan warned that Britain would not sit idly by while a German-led Common Market squeezes it out of Europe and achieves hegemony on the Continent. Macmillan reportedly recalled that in the past Britain had joined hands with Russia to crush Napoleon's France; the British now might be forced to lead another peripheral alliance against Europe, particularly in view of what he allegedly called the revival of Naziism in Germany...
...heavy-handed justice and last-resort fire hoses. If Negroes should launch an economic boycott of downtown stores, along the lines of their successful boycott of segregated buses four years ago, Montgomery's whites would hit back hard. Yet, short of closing every Negro college, the South cannot crush the challenge posed by young Negro college men and women. The old answers will not silence the new spokesmen...
...Indonesia, the East Germans finished a sugar mill two years behind schedule only to find that it was a beet-sugar mill and the rollers were not heavy enough to crush Indonesian cane sugar...