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CHOI Oi (as in the Yiddish expletive oy oy!) is an all-purpose Vietnamese phrase of uncertain origin, meaning, at best, good grief...
With medication and a complete cessation of smoking, the accompanying disorders subsided and the operation was successful. "There was little doubt," said Fieser in his letter, "about the origin of these disorders and hence little ground for questioning the origin of the accompanying tumor...
...blackout itself remained a mystery yesterday and federal investigators admitted they might never be able to trace the origin of the 80,000 square mile power failure...
...Monopolies." The trouble was triggered by an invasion: since 1958, some 15,000 French ex-colonials, mostly from Algeria and many of Corsican origin, have swarmed onto the island. Their arrival has turned France's most underdeveloped department into its noisiest headache. The "repatriates" grabbed up much of the island's fertile eastern plain-a region that accounts for nearly half of Corsica's arable land, but was uninhabitable because of malaria until U.S. Army engineers cleared it with insecticides during World...
Died. Tingfu F. Tsiang, 69, Nationalist China's longtime Ambassador to the U.N. (1947-62) and to the U.S." (1962-65), a Columbia University-educated historian and original (1934-42) member of the Chiang Kai-shek Cabinet, who took charge of China's wartime relief program, feeding some 5,000,000 uprooted Chinese, later so persuasively advocated the Nationalist cause at the U.N. that he was given considerable credit for the exclusion of the Peking government, which he called "un-Chinese in origin, character and purpose"; of cancer; in Manhattan...