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...Marrying Kind. In Singapore, charged with attempted suicide, Fong Kum Mok tearfully told the court that he tried to slash his throat after reflecting on his marital problems, explained: his first wife died, his second ran off with thousands of dollars in cash and jewelry, his prospective third broke her promise to wed him, fled with several hundred dollars...
...muezzins crying, "There is no God but Allah," calls the faithful to the salat al-jami, the obligatory Friday service. The devout shutter their shops, rush through a thorough washing, and hurry into the mosque. Clad in dignity and finery, the imam ascends the pulpit, murmurs "salaam alei-kum," recites a text from the Koran, and begins a sermon which rarely lasts more than 20 minutes. So it has been for centuries...
...Student of the week: former North Korean Communist No Kum-Sok, 22, who won a reward of $100,000 for piloting a MIG-15 from behind the Iron Curtain showed how he intended to use the money by enrolling as a freshman at the University of Delaware...
Dean knew that in these circumstances his half-trained troops needed their commander at the front. He lived hazardously and miraculously, jeeping through enemy roadblocks, leading relief columns to the front, jogging and rallying his men everywhere. Once the enemy crossed the Kum River, the pivotal city of Taejon was doomed, but Dean decided to give the Communists a real fight. He sent the bulk of his troops south to dig in for the next battle, and stayed on himself in Taejon with elements of the 19th and 34th Regiments to direct the last and greatest delaying action before...
...Assyrian records tell of a race called the "Khumri." These, according to the theory, were the Ten Tribes, who became the Greeks' Cimmerioi and the Romans' Cimbri, gave their name to such places as the Crimea, Cumberland and Cambria, and were also the Cymry (pronounced Kum-ree), who originally settled in Wales. Other branches are supposed to have become the Scythians, or Scuthae, who populated Scotland, and the Sacae, or Saxons (i.e., Isaac's sons...