Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Private Citizen. That afternoon Syngman Rhee left the presidential palace for Pear Blossom House, his private residence in Seoul. As his bulletproof Cadillac moved along the two-mile route-at first he had insisted that he wanted to walk, "so as not to use government transportation''-his countrymen once again recalled that, for all his political sins. Syngman Rhee. 85, was nonetheless the father of South Korea's independence. The crowds that two days earlier had been calling for his death began to applaud him. And when he reached Pear Blossom House, where he placidly settled down...
...Elephant Walk. "Under increased gravity," says Wunder, after studying motion pictures of his high-G hamsters, "the hamsters walk around and seem to adapt very nicely, but their walking pattern is more like an elephant than a hamster. They're a bit perturbed about having to carry a bigger load." When young mice or hamsters are put on a centrifuge, they usually lose considerable weight for three or four days. "Apparently they have trouble digesting their food," says Dr. Wunder. "They level off and gain back their original weight, but they never get as big as ordinary mice...
...parliamentary commission, all Democrats, began its work by banning all political activity for three months and suspending four newspapers for reporting details of the Assembly session. This was intended, said a spokesman, to have "a calming effect." But as old Ismet Inonu left the Anatolia Club that afternoon to walk 400 yards to Ankara's Ish Bank, a crowd of 5.000 formed quickly around him. They shouted "Hurriyet [Freedom]" and began singing the famed marching song that Turks sang at Samsun in 1919 when the late great Ataturk landed to launch the fight for an independent Turkish republic...
...Jewish people have survived pleadings, the sword and the crematorium in their steadfast devotion to the faith of their fathers. The Jewish position has never been stated more beautifully than in Micah 4:5: "For let all the peoples walk, each one in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever...
World Wide 60 (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Along The Way of the Cross, TV cameras will retrace Christ's last walk from the judgment seat of Pilate, step by step to Calvary...