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...Rhee's running mate, ailing Lee Ki Poong, who has difficulty walking and speaking because of a nervous disorder, and did not make a single campaign speech. So Rhee's Liberals set to work. Election day brought many complaints of voter intimidation and open ballot-fixing, of six-foot high boards outside some polling places showing voters how to mark their ballots for Rhee and Lee. Green-shirted members of Rhee's Anti-Communist Youth League lounged outside the booths as voters arrived, often in organized teams of three (so that the man in the middle could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH KOREA: Victorious Methods | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...Yourself Christmas Tree. Six-foot Christmas trees with removable fir boughs that can be assembled at home were developed by Oregon Beauty Christmas Tree Co. for Montgomery Ward stores. The trees come in a kit containing 46 fireproofed Douglas fir boughs and a drilled wooden trunk into which the boughs are stuck to create a perfectly shaped tree. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Products, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

Chih's disciples dutifully sealed their master's unembalmed body, seated cross-legged in the position of meditation, in a six-foot concrete urn, enshrined it behind the monastery near Taipei where he had spent his last days, and at once set about collecting money for the gilding they were confident he would deserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Gilded Holy Man | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

Stan Greenspan in the discus, Tom Corbin in the hammer, javelin, and shot, and John Jeppson in the discus and shot will support Bailey in the weight events. Dean Alpine, a potential six-foot jumper, should add points in the high jump. The broad jump, behind Beckwith, and the pole vault are weak...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: LINING THEM UP | 4/14/1959 | See Source »

...Six-Foot Pit. Hurrying home to his tiny, rented straw-mat room in an overcrowded shack on the city's outskirts, Kawamura eagerly told his fellow tenants what he had learned. Sure enough, they remembered that there was an old tombstone in the field, so deeply buried that only its top showed above the earth. Nobody knew whose grave it was. It had always been there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Samurai's Grave | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

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