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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Glad Shouts. Last week in Germany, Congressman Chatham fell into an adventure which left even his oldest acquaintances breathing a little heavily. One night, as he was seated with a glass of something warming in a West Berlin nightclub, he was spotted by a Russian whom he had known in Washington during World War II. The two men greeted each other with glad shouts, talked for hours, finally went to the Russian's flat in East Berlin. How, asked the Russian, would the Congressman like to go for a drive in the morning? The Congressman would...
Conferences & Croquet. In the next 20 years Syngman Rhee's life fell into the dreary, frustrating round of most exiled politicians. He attended international conferences vainly trying to win recognition for Korea. (The U.S. Government blocked his attendance at Versailles Treaty meetings and at later disarmament conferences, because his presence might have embarrassed the Japanese.) He quarreled with other exiled Korean politicians. (Rhee was for continued passive resistance; other leaders favored violent action.) By World War II, the Provisional Government was almost defunct and Rhee turned over the Korean central agency in China to Kim Koo, Korea...
...Wept When Flock Fell...
...regarded as the place where the Great Spirit appeared as a huge ball of fire and plunged into the earth. This story, according to Professor Lincoln La Paz, meteor expert of the University of New Mexico, even penetrated scientific writings and was used as "proof" that the meteor fell at a date when the region had human inhabitants to witness its fall...
...that he had found, close to the lip of the crater, a pit house of prehistoric, 1000 A.D. Indians who obviously did not fear the place too much to live there. He suspects that the legend was invented recently by white men. Geological evidence indicates that the meteor probably fell more than 50,000 years ago, when it is unlikely that humans were around to be frightened...