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Ever since he lifted his ban on civilian political activity last January, the heat has been on South Korean Strongman General Park Chung Hee. Anger over the strong-arm tactics of the feared Central Intelligence Agency forced Park to sack his top hatchet man (and nephew by marriage), C.I.A. Boss Kim Chong Pil. Investigations revealed wholesale corruption within South Korea's C.I.A., and charges were leveled that Park had done nothing to relieve South Korea's economic chaos. Threatened with civil war by disaffected members of his own military junta, Park reluctantly bowed out of the forthcoming civilian...
Alpert and his nephew, attorney George Alpert, admitted that the family is not one "related by blood or law," but based their appeal on the fact that "family unit" is left undefined in Newton's zoning code. Citing cases in other states where groups of people living communally were "family units," Alpert stressed that he and his friends formed "one housekeeping group" and should be considered a unit...
...side's advantage. He has already drawn blood with his slashing attacks on the "vain nuclear posturing" of the Macmillan government. Macmillan's relations with U.S. President John Kennedy, said Wilson, reminded him of a "seedy uncle" receiving homilies from a young and wealthy nephew. Though it may be difficult to discover precisely where Harold Wilson stands, there was little doubt last week about where he intends to come to rest-at 10 Downing Street...
...18th century, travelers began to bring back reports of more solid architectural wonders to dazzle the imaginations of stay-at-home Britons, and artists started to make sketching trips to China and India to satisfy this curiosity about all things Eastern. Most important of these was an uncle-and-nephew team. Thomas Daniell and his 17-year-old ward William. This week a show of their work, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution, opens at the University of Chicago...
Explosive Influence. Back in England, the uncle and nephew spent the next 13 years making 144 aquatints for Oriental Scenery, a six-part work published between 1795 and 1808. This was followed in 1810 by A Picturesque Voyage to India by the Way of China with 50 illustrations. The influence on building, landscaping and interior decoration of these books was almost explosive. A cult of Indian architecture arose, and country seats in such unlikely places as Gloucestershire sprang up disguised as Hindu temples, inspired by the Daniells' sketches...