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...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 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: New Rules | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

Some call letters sound like static (KAGH, KARK, KWAK, WZIP, WROK, WOKY), others like Aztec gods (KIXL, KXJK, KXXX), and a few like New Year's Eve (WOOW, WEEI). For the commercially minded, there are KOIN, KASH and KALE. A rundown of Hawaiian stations has the roll of a Polynesian alphabet (KILA, KONA, KIPA, KULA, KANI), and the palm for redundancy goes to Puerto Rico's'monotonous station WWWW...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Four-Letter Words | 1/4/1954 | See Source »

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