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Corruption Charges. Despite the landslide, it was the hardest-fought election in South Korea's postwar history. The challenger, a newspaper publisher turned politician who has been elected to the National Assembly three times, excited Korean voters with his flair for baby kissing, dramatic rhetoric, mudslinging, and boundless ability to concoct campaign promises. Kim zeroed in on the corruption that plagues the regime. "More than 300 of Park's top men have made up to $100 million each under his rule!" he cried. "As long as President Park remains in power, corruption will not be rooted...
AUDIENCE is a hard-cover bimonthly that virtually commands affluence from its readers. It costs $4.95 a copy and is a melange of Esquire and Horizon, with the flair of the long-dead peekaboo Flair. Book adaptations and artsy photographic portfolios are mixed with nonfiction articles that seem to have a very limited audience indeed. Example: "How I Rode with Harold Lewis on a Diesel Freight Train Down to Gridley, Kansas, and Back," which turns out to be exactly that...
When he stopped attracting publicity for his swimming exploits at Harvard he seemed to develop a certain eccentricity, as perceived by acquaintances. Krause acknowledges that part of this new personal flair may have been conceived as a way to get the attention he had become so used...
...maintenance budget and a community center that includes a gym, Olympic swimming pool, auditorium and numerous rooms for all ages to use for hobbies and leisure-time activities. Within the city's boundaries can be found an airport, a three-par golf course, riding stables, the all-new Flair Industrial Park with multistoried Aerojet General Building and other leading industries. The downtown Valley Mall, which is both attractive and practical, has maintained its stores and was one of the first of its kind...
...expense of her former screen image-and although funny, it somehow smells of self-exploitation. Katherine Hepburn made her first comedy, Bringing Up Baby, in 1938, and spent the forties as a socialite-heroine forever being brought down to earth by James Stewart or Spencer Tracy. Without much flair for humor-until she discovered being mean to Joan Crawford in the sixties-Bette Davis settled for ever-drearier tear-jerkers...