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To all outward appearances, South Korea's ruling military junta has wielded iron-fisted control over the country since it seized power in a lightning coup nearly two years ago. Under Strongman General Park Chung Hee, the government stifled all opposition; newspapers were gagged, and 4,000 known political...
Only now and then, as Pianist Louis Kentner and the London Philharmonic Orchestra performed the Scherzo's British premiere last week, could Bartok fans find hints of the more familiar dissonances and pounding rhythms of the composer's later career. This was vintage stuff, dating back to Bartok...
In the past five years, the U.S. has pumped some $43.5 million into Haiti, the small Negro Caribbean country misruled by Strongman François Duvalier. A respected back-country doctor before he went into politics, "Papa Doc,'' as he calls himself, has become a ham-fisted tyrant...
No sooner had Democrats swept California than they set to fighting among themselves. The main antagonists: Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, ham-fisted leader of California's Democratic professionals, and former National Committeeman Paul Ziffren, a Beverly Hills tax lawyer who drives a silver Rolls-Royce but thinks in proletarian...
And there is no busier actor now working With Margaret Leighton, he is doing Broadway's Tchin-Tchin, the story of a man and woman whose absentee spouses are having a love affair. The play opened in October, but Quinn still sits up at night trying to figure out...