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...South Korea's high school and university students had appointed themselves the guardians of democracy. Their elders had stood by helplessly last March, when Rhee's musclemen flagrantly rigged the vice-presidential election to count out Vice President John M. Chang and "elect" Rhee's chosen heir, ailing Lee Ki Poong. But the students were less docile. Fortnight ago, their anger flared into rioting at the port city of Masan (TIME, April 25). In other cities, other students marched in demonstrations. One warm spring morning last week, it was Seoul's turn...
...time grow tired of her, he can send her home and demand back his cows. In some parts of the country, she must bear her mate three children before the union becomes binding. In other districts, if her husband dies she will be handed on to his heir. Whatever money or property he leaves is disposed of by the head of the family, but whatever money she herself earns belongs to her husband-and, if he feels like it, he may use her money to buy an additional wife. All this is humiliating to a city girl...
...back seat to no one-except in kidnaping, which French criminals apparently rate a U.S. specialty. The French do not even have a name for it, use the U.S. word, pronounced keednaping. But last week le crime américain was on every Parisian tongue. Little Eric Peugeot, an heir to one of France's greatest industrial (autos, appliances, heavy machinery) fortunes, was stolen in broad daylight and held for $100,000 ransom...
Born. To Prince Albert of Liège, 25, heir to the throne of Belgium now held by his brother, Bachelor King Baudouin, and Princess Paola, 22: their first child, second in line of succession; in Brussels. Name: Philippe Léopold Louis Marie. Weight...
...irrelevant that global destruction is still imminent. In a reaction delayed for almost five years, the public has again started to worry about tomorrow. Thus, tomorrow’s generation is heir to a new optimism, a belief that a cause whose realization is five or 10 or 50 years off is not a hopeless cause...