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...else to go. More than 1,000,000 (no one really knows how many) have rolled across the Chinese border since the Reds began rising to power. They ask only freedom and often get little more ($1 a day is considered a good wage in Hong Kong). Recently Wen Ko, a cultured former government official from Hunan, was crushed to death by a truck-while shoveling dirt as an earth coolie. To keep the flow of immigration under control, Hong Kong put into effect last March a quota that, in effect, admits one Chinese for every one who returns...
...match, Leverett's pile-driving Jack Canning won the quickest bout of the night as he KO'd Dave Hoffman of Lowell in the first 40 seconds of round...
...class, Peter Coker of Adams KO'd Eliot's Jim Smith in the second, after sending him to the canvas four times. Warren Bradbury of Leverett took a decision over Tom Howes of Dunster House in the 155-lb. class. Lindsay Fischer of the Bunnies lost on a decision to Dunster's Otis Dewan...
...Ko Ko Mo (CrewCuts; Mercury). Explosive, riffing treatment of what is apparently a grand passion. Eminently suitable for barroom backgrounds...
...began to investigate the various changes in word endings, found that they seemed to follow certain rules of grammar much like those of Greek. Finally, he began coupling various Greek syllable sounds with likely signs on the tablets. To one word, for instance, he assigned the Greek sounds KO-NO-SO (Knossos), and to another word with the same beginning, he assigned KO-WO, or kor-wos, classical Greek for boy. Taking his cue from the tablets' pictures, Ventris tried other combinations. To his delight, the tablets at last began to make sense...