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...Word to the Cops. By afternoon, Rhee called in Army Chief of Staff Lieut. General Song Yo Chan and placed Seoul under martial law. Rumbling into town with old Sherman tanks, the 15th ROK Infantry Division took over from the hated police. Genial, able General Song was firm, but his sympathies clearly lay with the students. "Call on me any time," he told a student delegation. As for the police, he warned bluntly: "Policemen found beating, torturing or abusing anyone will be dealt with under martial...
With a few months of acting lessons behind her, Nancy wept well enough. Says Director Richard Quine: "She leaps to the bait like a hungry trout. She never has to be told twice, and she's resilient as a Yo-Yo." Daughter of a Chinese architect and an English-born Conover-model mother, Nancy knows Suzie Wong's world as well as anyone in the cast. When she was not absorbing an education in Hong Kong's Roman Catholic Maryknoll convent school, she was playing in the city where Suzie herself grew...
...only short periods because the heat they generate made the water around them boil violently. In later dives the Trieste will carry more instruments, take more pictures, and collect water and living creatures from the depths. Says Dr. Rechnitzer: "We'll go up and down like a Yo-yo...
...hand." The idea was originally suggested by a Roman Catholic priest who wanted an adjunct for his parish church, roughly in the $75,000 range. Winecoff outgrew the parish quickly. With private financing from such angels as Comedian Jack Haley and Donald F. Duncan, the parking-meter and Yo-Yo king, the project has now reached the $15 million stage. Promises Angel Haley: "Bible Storyland is not going to offend the sensibilities of any faith...
...Aristocratic Moyo Sato constantly reminded her son that their ancestors had been charged by the Emperor with guarding Shimonoseki Strait, the gateway to the Inland Sea. Her uncle was a major general who founded the Japanese cavalry; her brothers and sisters married into top families, including the Matsuokas and Yo-shidas. "Never forget you are a samurai," she said. "Never take second place...