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...earned Rhee's abid ing hatred by getting himself elected Vice President on the Democratic ticket. Rhee isolated him by excluding him from all participation in govern ment, did not even speak to him except on ceremonial occasions. Then an assassin took a potshot at him, hit ting him in the hand; Chang was so shaken that he retired to his home, surrounded himself with hand-picked bodyguards, and rarely ventured forth. And though he courageously continued to denounce the corruption and brutality of the Rhee regime, many mem bers of Chang's own party were disappointed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TWO NO. 2's | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

Formosa. When Clerk Tsai Yung-ting awoke at 2 a.m., the rain had been falling for hours on the sleeping coastal village of Houlung. Too late, he rushed down to the sea wall-to find the dike watchmen asleep and the water pouring through. By the time he got back to rouse the sleeping village, the torrent was already waisthigh. That night Tsai and 29 others of Houlung's 100 people died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FAR EAST: The Rains Came | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...frame around an opened book and paint the whole thing red. Or he will attach a music box to the back of a blue collage, with the key sticking through the front. "The music box played Silent Night," he remarks. "I fixed it to go 'ping, ting, click' instead." Prize exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art's "Recent Acquisitions" show last week was a Johns target, messily painted in red, blue and yellow atop a layer of old newspapers pasted to canvas. Attached to the upper edge of the canvas was a boxlike arrangement containing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: His Heart Belongs to Dada | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...oversees operations with a machine gun in hand, Patricia is convinced that love and decency are the real weapons needed to bring the Communist guerrillas to peace. When she practically adopts Ling, a Chinese Communist girl and a very nice dish, every male in the vicinity begins to go ting-a-ling, and Author Boulle has a field day trying to prove that men are men, women are women, and do-gooder females do not know East from West even when they are facing in the right direction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Nov. 17, 1958 | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Oooh-eee-oooh-aah-aah Ting-tang Walla-walla bing-bang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Purple, Man, Purple | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

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