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...political science, medicine, pharmacy and education. It runs 70 laboratories, two hospitals, two kindergartens, two demonstration schools. Though a goodly proportion (68% this year) of its graduates go into teaching, many are married to top figures in Korea (among them: Lee Ki Poong, speaker of the National Assembly; Kim Tai Sun. mayor of Seoul; Admiral Sohn Won II, former Defense Minister; Choi Kyu Nam, Education Minister). Men with Ewha wives still call themselves Pan-kwan (the Henpecked), but the term is now used with pride. "Ewha's struggle," says President Kim, "is more than a mere educational movement...
...Scorned. In Taipei, Formosa, after a pretty neighbor turned down his marriage proposal, Tai Chih-yun, 39, got a six-year jail sentence for biting off the tip of her nose...
...students who call themselves "The Chinese High School Singsong and Harmonica Corps" were practicing in a second-floor club in one of the busy sections of Singapore. From the bottom of the stairs, a voice called up and asked in friendly Mandarin to speak to Corps Leader Lee Tai Lim. A few seconds later, a shot rang out and 21-year-old Lee fell dead in the street. He had been well known in Singapore as an active anti-Communist student leader. Said the police, as they offered a record reward of 25,000 Straits dollars ($8,333) for finding...
...Reds have not yet achieved all their objectives, but so far only a handful of students have dared to resist openly, among them the murdered Lee Tai Lim. Few students cared or dared to comment on Lee's death, and only twelve attended his funeral...
...made the victory relaxed under a prebreakfast massage in his 13-room, Western-style house on a hill in central Tokyo, while supporters trooped in with sake, beer, and trays of tai fish for a long day of celebration. For most of his adult life, Ichiro Hatoyama has longed to govern Japan. In fact, even before he was born, his politician father intended him to be a politician, and his mother, a woman of learning and vigor who believed that a child in the womb is shaped by the mother's thoughts, carefully limited her pregnancy reading to biographies...