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Blood Cleansing. The Pied Piper of this international youth brigade was born into a Presbyterian family in Chongju-Gun, in northern Korea. He attended a pentecostal church, and on Easter Sunday of 1936, he reports, Jesus appeared and told him to carry out his unfinished task by completing man's salvation. Moon got married in 1944 but left his pregnant wife behind in Seoul to go to preach in the north. There, in 1948, he was imprisoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Darker Side of Sun Moon | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...Movie Actor Mitsuyasu Maeno appeared at Tokyo's Chofu Airport last week in a World War II kamikaze pilot's uniform, complete with white scarf and with risingsun flags emblazoned on his right sleeve and on his warrior's headband. As he rented a single-engine Piper Cherokee from a local flying club, he explained that he was merely doing a publicity turn for a new film on the 1944-45 suicide pilots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Kamikaze Over Tokyo | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

Minutes later, Maeno cut the Piper's engine and shouted into his microphone the traditional kamikaze pilot's farewell: Tenno Heika Banzai!-Long Live the Emperor! He then dove his plane into Kodama's house, where it slammed into a second-floor balcony and exploded in flames. Maeno died instantly. But neither Kodama, resting in another room, nor any of his family or staff was hurt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Kamikaze Over Tokyo | 4/5/1976 | See Source »

...Italian transplanted to Denver, Fassi, 46, is the Pied Piper of his sport: a community of 35 skaters, plus in some cases their entire families, have migrated to study with him inside the green sheet-metal walls of the Colorado Ice Arena, of which he is part owner. The Fassi tribe includes skaters from the U.S., Italy, Finland, Britain, Yugoslavia and Sweden-plus several Russians who have come for briefer consultations. All pay $9 for 20 minutes worth of Fassi's wisdom. Most think it is a bargain. "I owe 75% of my gold medal to Carlo," says Dorothy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fassi: The Man with the Midas Touch | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...sore throat, or any number of aches and pains, you just go to UHS, stand in line, and say you can't function. My understanding is it's like rolling off a log. The only reason more people don't do it is that you have to pay the piper with a makeup exam later on." Most people who bag exams are good students, people who can't stand the thought of a blemish on their average...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann and Richard Turner, S | Title: In the Bunker | 1/28/1976 | See Source »

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