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Dartmouth's only goal was scored by freshman Mya Mangawang, who took advantage of a miscommunication among the defenders, and beat Crimson goalie Brooke Donahoe...
...Thailand at night, rounded up all the males ages 14 to 40 and marched them back to camp. The remaining villagers grew hysterical, and leaders of a small group of Seventh Day Adventist and Baptist missionaries, who supply refugees with school books, Bibles and food, protested to General Bo Mya, president of the Karens. The next day the conscripts were returned, and the missionaries received a note of apology from the brigade commander...
Recapricorn. In Rangoon, Burma, "Friends are informed"-said an ad in the newspaper Bamakhit-"that the announcement on 13 January 1959 that I and Ma Mya Kyaing had been divorced was merely a propitiatory act astrologically executed to prevent the actual event from taking place...
...consulted an astrologer over the timing of his current business deal, or of the next union with his wife, should an heir be desired. Burma's bustling Socialist government employs a "Board of Astrologers" which similarly advises the nation upon the timing of significant events. The respected Daw Mya Yi (Madame Loving Emerald) recently set the date of her daughter's wedding after consultations with her personal astrologer; her husband, Prime Minister U Nu, did not object...
...University of Rangoon, where he graduated in philosophy, U Nu wrote sonnets, "mostly to lampoon rival football teams," and read avidly-Shaw, Shakespeare, Havelock Ellis, Karl Marx. Then he became a schoolteacher, wrote some plays with Freudian themes, and directed his sonnets at Mya Yi, the school board chairman's daughter, with whom he later eloped. Under the spell of a learned Rangoon editor named U Ba Cho, the young playwright got interested in both Buddhism and his country's fight for independence. The zealotry of his politics and religion astonished his friends...