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...points and eclipsed by a fantastic 326 points the world record, set in 1959 by Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov. To do it, Johnson had to beat the best decathlon field ever. Seven men scored more than 7,000 points, and Nationalist China's C. K. Yang, a student at U.C.L.A. and the 1959 U.S. champion, also bettered Kuznetsov's record by 69 points...
...bright and smiling as the Washington spring day. South Korea's Ambassador You Chan Yang showed up at the State Department one day last week in answer to a summons from Secretary Christian Herter. Thirty minutes later he emerged glumly. Within the hour. State Department Press Officer Lincoln White told reporters that Herter had expressed the U.S.'s "profound and growing concern" over 1) the highhanded suppression of political opposition by South Korea's 85-year-old President Syngman Rhee, 2) brutal Korean police action against student protest marchers, and 3) other "repressive measures unsuited...
Myth & Vinegar. Dr. Jarvis prescribes vinegar (always the apple-cider variety) for all comers. The vinegar can be taken straight or diluted in water. But for maximum efficacy, he insists that it be mixed with honey-a sort of sweet-'n'-sour, yang-and-yin combination...
...lawn of the British Legation in Peking on the afternoon of June 20, 1900, a sergeant reported to the officer commanding the Royal Light Infantry guarding the legation: "Sir, the firing has commenced." The Chinese empire had begun a last feeble fight against the yang kuei-tzu (foreign devils), who had turned China into one of history's great grab bags. In half a century, seven powers had taken eleven bases in China and split 13 of the 18 provinces into "spheres of influence," a gentlemanly phrase for the control of China's trade and government...
Manchudini. In Taipei, Formosa, when police came to investigate reports of the fraudulent activities of Yang Yung-wei, Yang politely asked them to be seated, and-when they were comfortably settled-stepped quickly out of the room, locking the door behind...