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...Shantung the rivers I and Shu, tributaries of the great Yellow River, overflowed their banks, submerged millions of acres, destroyed the homes and farmlands of hundreds of thousands of peasants. Radio Peking, acknowledging the magnitude of the floods, said that 20,000 life-buoys and thousands of tons of food had been airdropped to marooned villages. In eastern Honan province two more tributaries of the Yellow River burst their dikes, bringing the total area devastated by flood to more than 7,400,000 acres...
...woody top of Mount Koya, south of Osaka in Japan, are scores of ancient temples and pilgrim hostels that make up the spiritual center of the influential Buddhist sect called Shingon-shu. Last week the shaven-pated monks of Shingon-shu climbed out of their black robes into a strange new garb called a baseball uniform, began pitching a stitched leather ball around and swinging at it with a wooden club called...
...Formosa's last general elections three years ago, the candidate who carried off the top political job of mayor of the capital of Taipei was no Kuomintang (government) party stalwart, but a hard-campaigning islander named Kao Yu-shu. Nationalist leaders, painfully aware that many Formosans (Taiwanese) resented the political control of the Chinese mainlanders, were quick to get the point. Overruling the advice of old-line ward bosses (who wanted to gerrymander Taipei into an independent city and make its mayor a political appointee), Kuomintang reform politicians set out to defeat Independent Kao in the next election...
...Arabs read it and blew up. They insisted that the council must strike the whole paragraph out: such words might commit the four Arab states to more than a military truce with the Israelis. Syria's Delegate Ahmed el Shu-kairy said flatly that to satisfy the Arabs "the establishment of Israel, its membership in the U.N. . . will have to be revoked...
...Power & Influence." The charges, as set forth by the grand jury, left a good deal yet to be explained. They arose from the case of Irving Sachs, ex-president of Shu-Stiles Inc., a wholesale shoe company in St. Louis. In 1951, Sachs pleaded guilty to evading $118,142 in federal taxes, and got off with a $40,000 fine on a showing that his health would be impaired by imprisonment. The grand jury last week said that Lawyer Schwimmer, acting for Sachs, had purchased the "power and influence" of Matt Connelly and T. Lamar Caudle to help get Sachs...