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...encourage continued highhandedness at home during Park's four-year term (although the returns had barely been announced when Park's Central Intelligence Agency rounded up 30 students on charges of plotting against the government). Defeated Opponent Yun went into hiding, but soon emerged and, in an unheard-of gesture in South Korea, sent Winner Park congratulations and flowers. Adding to Park's worries is a National Assembly election scheduled for next month, which his Democratic-Republican Party will be hard pressed to win. Neither is he expected to go overboard in any new policies of "independence...
...more than half a century old, including one built in 1847. Many are ill-lit, malodorous fire traps. Boston's schoolchildren are jammed in tight-40 to a class at many schools. It takes three or four years to build a school in Boston, and systematic overhauling is unheard...
Afterwards, however, Ralston's game seemed to slump. He lost sets to several unheard-of players in the U.S. championships, then was defeated in the quarterfinals by Brasil's Ronnie Barnes. Froehling murdered Barnes the next day, giving him seven games in three sets...
...prosecution attorney was interrupted twice in his summation, an almost unheard of phenomenon, for the gross inaccuracies and distortions that had crept into his oration. In a tiny voice, probably unheard by the jury, the judge charged the twelve men. They retired at 10:10 a.m. to consider their verdict, but returned in 20 minutes with a request to see the jail. At noon they returned and were sent to lunch...
Prokofiev: Concerto No. 4 for Piano (Left Hand) and Orchestra (Rudolf Serkin; Columbia). This controversial concerto was written in 1931 for Paul Wittgenstein, the one-armed pianist, but languished unheard for 25 years. "Aggressively modern," snorted Wittgenstein, refusing to play it. His was a harsh verdict, judging by Serkin's performance...