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...rubber-stamp vote turns a tough general into a President
...South Korean presidential race was not exactly a cliffhanger. Indeed, Chun Doo Hwan, 49, the military strongman, ordered construction to begin on his inaugural stand before the election was even announced. Then last week the National Conference for Unification, the rubber-stamp electoral college, convened in Seoul's Changchung arena to make it official. With only one invalid ballot marring the unanimity of 2,525 delegates, Chun was voted the country's fifth President since it gained statehood...
...does of those blends of action and philosophy that the French intellectual adventurers used to put out. It may not be André Malraux, but it certainly is on the level of Remain Gary - and all the more remarkable and amusing for bearing a MADE IN U.S.A. stamp. - By Richard Schickel
...manager, Hammer has found that his secretive style and grabbing ways have won him few friends on Wall Street and none at all on the Securities and Exchange Commission, which has charged that in effect the company's board of directors amounts to little more than a rubber stamp for the chairman. So far, there is slight reason to believe that Abboud's arrival will change Occidental's one-man-band character very much...
Herpes, from the Greek "to creep," has been around for ages: the Roman Emperor Tiberius vainly tried to stamp it, or something like it, out by banning kissing. With the sexual revolution of the 1960s, herpes broke out of its confines as a venereal disease that was thought (incorrectly) to afflict only the "licentious" lower classes. Suddenly, "viruses of love" infected entire college dormitories and rode the waves of rising divorce and crumbling monogamy...