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General Chang Do Yung, who appointed himself Premier, seemed intent on stamping out the evils of years in the space of a few days. To help Korea's starving peasants, many of whom have been forced to mortgage their crops at as much as 80% interest, Chang froze all loans bearing interest rates of more than 20% a year. To clear Seoul's slums, bulldozers were sent to raze acres of cardboard and tin shacks. The bewildered inhabitants were ordered to clean up the debris, then were trucked off to a barren new site, where they were bundled...
...safe, not even royalty (see cut). In February on the Veneto, when U.S. Actor Ernest Borgnine and his estranged wife, Katy Jurado, wrangled in the street, cameras popped. They caught Actor Cornel Wilde struggling with a local heckler, froze Anita Ekberg's bosom as it heaved in a wild dance at a private Roman orgy. When Katharine Hepburn passed through town recently, the paparazzi mounted Vespa scooters, putt-putted out to waylay her at Fiumicino Airport. Because Ava Gardner once called him a dirty name. Paparazzo Tazio Secchiaroli vengefully hid for hours in a cardboard box on a Cinecitta...
...rock pitons. Anchored only by their hand picks, the four were inching upwards when Kinshofer suddenly fell. Sorhehow the other three managed to absorb his shock when he hit the end of the rope. Gingerly the team passed "death bivouac," where two members of the first north wall team froze to death in 1935. The fourth night out, watching his tiny, portable barometer fall ominously, Hiebeler began to pray that the weather would hold. It did: the morning was cloudless...
...Mapes Dodge's children's classic, Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates, Henk van der Grift grew up in Holland dreaming of whizzing his way to glory on the ice. But because the canals around his home town of Breukelen (which gave its name to Brooklyn) seldom froze over, Henk had to do much of his training by taking to the woods and pushing one foot after the other along the ground as though he were skating. Recalls his mother flatly: "He was declared crazy any number of times...
...embattled New Orleans, where one school is integrated, a third-grade white boy peacefully broke the total white boycott at another, McDonogh No. 19. To aid many city teachers, who went unpaid because the segregationist state legislature froze school funds, Mayor deLesseps S. Morrison asked people to pay property taxes not due until May, quickly got enough to pay salaries in full for January...