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Working with bits of bone, fossilized impressions in stone and educated intuition, scientists have cleverly deduced the appearance, weight, speed and even habits of animals that have long been extinct. Now, University of Arizona Paleontologist-Biochemist Tong-yun Ho has gained an unexpected new insight into the metabolism of many of these extinct animals. He has learned to take their temperature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paleontology: Fever Chart for Fossils | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...Four years ago, South Korea's tough little retired army general Chung Hee Park scraped into the presidency with a bare 156,000-vote margin over former President (1960-62) and onetime Archaeologist Posun Yun, 69. Last week, Park showed just how far he and his country have come in those four years. In South Korea's most peaceful election in postwar years, more than 11 million out of 14 million eligible voters turned out to give Park and his reform-minded Democratic Republican Party a margin of more than 1,000,000 votes over Yun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Proof at the Polls | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

Park's victory was a defeat not only for Yun but for the old-style politicians and the brand of factionalism that they represented. It was a major display of maturing political organizations as South Korea moves from the traditional Oriental politics of the elite to popular party rule. "Now that the election is over," Park told Koreans in a brief victory statement, "it is time for all of us to lay aside our differences and work together to modernize our country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Proof at the Polls | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...Yun's New Democratic Party will likely cut into Park's rural support in this week's election, but not enough to offset the government's gains in the cities and along the eastern coast, where South Korea's prosperity is most evident. Overall, Park is expected to increase his 1963 margin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Bid for a Bigger Mandate | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

...progress, however, is not without problems. There is widespread corruption in lower levels of government; and out in the dirt-poor countryside, millions of Koreans have yet to share in prosperity. Claiming that Park's policies have only "made the rich richer and the poor poorer," Yun has traveled the country from one end to the other, promising that if elected he will cut fertilizer prices and general taxes, raise tax exemptions and increase government salaries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Bid for a Bigger Mandate | 5/5/1967 | See Source »

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