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...Seoul, meanwhile, an apprehensive calm prevailed. The Cabinet of Prime Minister Shin Hyon Hwack abruptly resigned, taking the blame for "failure to maintain domestic calm." It was succeeded by a new one headed by Park Choong Hoon, a retired major general and administrator credited with having been a force behind South Korea's economic development. On Tuesday the Martial Law Command announced that it had decided to close down the National Assembly indefinitely. Opposition members assembled on the grass in a kind of sit-down strike. All 43 of them offered their resignations to the floor leader. Grumbled...
...evident that Princeton had a long day ahead from the first inning of the opener. With one out, Bob Kelley jumped on a change-up by Tiger hurler Hoon Mo Chung, lining it to left field for a single...
...amendment, with its tighter safeguards for liberty and individual rights, would be considered an "antirevolutionary." All but three of Rhee's Liberals got the point, and finally, by 208 to 3, the National Assembly approved the new law. "Now the second republic is born!" cried Speaker Kwak Sang Hoon, who "promptly was named the new Acting President, and as such had the ceremonial honor of greeting President Eisenhower at the presidential palace on Sunday. Huh Chung himself took over the job of Acting Premier, which commands the real power under the new constitution...
Dream House. In Honolulu, Chun Hoon, Ltd., grocers, reported the overnight appearance on their premises of a two-bedroom house, unoccupied. Next night it went away again...
...Chiang Kaishek. The new coalition of exiles did not include the 300,000 Koreans in Siberia. They remained aloof and inaccessible. At least 30,000 of them were said to be organized in a Red Army unit. They were apparently under the leadership of two veteran Korean leftists, Park Hoon...