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...Sentenced to death last year, Kim was released in February. Last month he was jailed again on charges of having violated South Korea's sweeping anti-Communist law. The government, meanwhile, has begun international distribution of a pamphlet called The Case Against Kim Chi Ha, an effort to prove the highly dubious contention that Kim is a fervent Communist. Kim's friends fear that the government is moving to prepare public opinion for his execution...
Hole in One. Waugh, who also developed an effective artificial knee joint three years ago, is currently working on a smaller version of the U.C.I, ankle for children. He will soon leave for Sweden to teach other surgeons his ankle-replacement technique, which may prove particularly valuable for dealing with severe arthritis. Says he: "One of the good things about this operation is that any competent orthopedic surgeon can do it without much problem. It should bring tremendous relief to thousands of crippled persons." Waugh's patients share his enthusiasm for the ankle, which costs $375, plus the cost...
...Cabinet rank when Home Secretary Roy Jenkins threatened to resign over his fellow moderate's demotion. The Prentice move displaced Leftist Judith Hart, who was offered the Ministry of Transport but turned it down in pique. "I fear we are witnessing the first dangerous stages of what could prove to be a historic catastrophe for the Labor Party," she said, in an emotional speech to Parliament. The post she rejected was left temporarily vacant when Transport Minister Fred Mulley moved over to fill Prentice's Education portfolio. As one Labor M.P. observed, it was "a classic Wilsonian reshuffle...
Ridiculous it may be, but journalists often find it essential to let their sources say things privately that they would never say otherwise. Some of these sources may try to entomb sensitive information by using the off-the-record stratagem, but the presidential luncheon episode seems to prove, as Seymour Hersh says, that such things do have a way of getting...
...dear reader, the Six Pine Trees, the Hundred Acre Wood, Galleon's Lap (where Pooh and C.R. said their last goodbye), Christopher Robin's tree house and the Pooh-sticks Bridge were real. The book offers photographs juxtaposed against E.H. Shepherd's matchless drawings to prove it. The animals were real too, except for Owl and Rabbit, though Kanga and Tigger, Milne explains, "were later arrivals, carefully chosen ... for their literary possibilities...