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...horrible thing," he sobbed finally, to 50 mourners at the lamplit coffin in a small West Philadelphia funeral home, "that this could happen in our city." The mayor's tears said it better. In the coffin lay the patched body of 26-year-old In Ho Oh, onetime interpreter for U.S. troops in Korea, onetime honor student at Seoul's National University and currently enrolled as a University of Pennsylvania political science exchange student. An eleven-member teen-aged Negro gang had pummeled In Ho Oh to death with a blackjack, a lead pipe and hard-toed shoes...
...street-shadows assault was even more brutal because it was luck-of-the-draw. As police put the thing together, the gang decided to roll a passer-by for money. In Ho Oh, in shirtsleeves, had slipped out of his uncle's apartment close by the Penn campus to mail a letter a block away, was attacked as he was doubling back. Two boys shackled the Korean's arms, others knocked off his glasses, hammered him to the ground, dragged his body behind a parked automobile and frisked pockets and socks for money that wasn't there...
...happy medium in education without mottoing "Excelsior Dewey" or "Hi-Ho Science...
India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was doing his utmost to provide fun, games and proper roosts for three foreign birds of altogether different feathers. The New Delhi visitors: U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Henry Cabot Lodge, North Viet Nam's vermicelli-bearded Red Boss Ho Chi Minh, Afghanistan's King Mohammed Zahir Shah. By all odds, Ho was the corniest good neighbor, kissed every official within reach, made misty-eyed speeches with proletarian humility, begged New Delhi's schoolchildren to call him chacha (uncle), the same term of endearment they have been taught to call...
Three years ago the echoes of the Communist cannon that conquered Dienbienphu still rumbled over the vast rimland of non-Communist Asia. Flushed with victory. Mao Tse-tung in Peking and Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi boasted that the rest of Indo-China was theirs for the asking, and looked past Indo-China to Malaya, Thailand and Burma. But last week, almost three years since North Viet Nam was formally surrendered to Communism, the heady Communist visions had not materialized...