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Congratulations and all that jazz to TIME on a real gasser of a story on that chick-loving weirdo I dig, that bug, Mort Sahl. "Wild, huh...
...that jazz. He also mixes in a never-ending supply of phrases parodying academic jargon ("We must learn to differentiate between generic and relative terms"). Between jokes, he draws on a fat little glossary of verbal rialtos that counterpoint the laughter, indicate his attitude to the material. "Wild, huh?" he will say, standing in the ruins of his most recent target, or "You can't go too far, fellas," or "Is there any group I haven't offended...
Jockeying for Power. The full Assembly will pick the new President, with caretaker Premier Huh Chung the leading candidate. But under the new constitution, the Premier will be the real power. Public choice is still Chang, 60, a U.S.-educated lawyer and a Roman Catholic. But he is being challenged within his own party by Yoon Bo Sun, 62, an oldtime Korean aristocrat trained in geology and archaeology at Edinburgh University, who feels Chang is a Johnny-come-lately in the Democratic Party...
...Acting President did not want to put undue pressure on Seoul's harassed, discredited 'legislature. But, suggested Huh Chung, there would be "no more arrests of Assemblymen" if they would just go ahead and approve the new constitution. Syngman Rhee's old enemies, the Democrats, darkly passed the word that anyone who opposed the constitutional 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...
With the new constitution authorized, Kwak, Huh and the Assembly will be automatically out of office on July 29. Then elections will be held to choose South Korea's new leaders. It was the most encouraging sign yet that South Korea was recovering from its post-revolutionary jag of vengeance and mutual acrimony, which at one time had brought the country perilously close to chaos...