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...commanded U.N. forces during the Korean war) began when its architects, who had never designed a hotel, positioned bungalows so artistically-and precariously-on the hillsides that a good rainfall threatened to slide them majestically into the Han River; the management is now frantically planting trees to stop mud slides. Then public funds appropriated for the project mysteriously started turning up in private pockets; eight top Walker Hill officials are currently under arrest or investigation for embezzlement and bribery. So bad was Walker Hill's credit rating that Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, whose band got $60,000 for playing...
...head, slopped through the muddy gullies. Many of them, says State Geologist Norman F. Williams, "are little old ladies who might be in their flower beds. They come dressed to kill and end up taking off their shoes, hiking up their skirts and wading in the mud." Women get the most excitement. Some of them shriek or faint when they find a tiny diamond...
...hatched a Who's Who of U.S. science -Fermi, Compton, Teller, Oppenheimer. After the war, as one of Germany's few relatively unbombed universities, Göttingen got quickly to work restoring its reputation, but its greatest days probably lie ahead. Last week surveyors slogged through spring mud to measure Göttingen for a mammoth expansion, at an eventual cost of $250 million, which will make the university four times as big in area as the Lower Saxony town (pop. 80,000) that gives the school its popular name...
...harbors 200,000 Somalis, Kenya's black nationalist leaders, led by ex-Mau Mau Chieftain Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, have always vowed that loss of their northeast corner would mean war with their own black Rendilles, who cover themselves with feathers; with their Turkanas, who wear little except mud hats; and with the Marilles, who wear only rifles. Thus, Britain's Sandys was bound to make enemies -and to risk violence-no matter what his decision about Kenya's frontier...
...long, Floyd, be seein' you-in about two more years." He brushed off a Russian reporter who prodded him about the plight of U.S. Negroes: "Man, the U.S.A. is the best country in the world, counting yours. I ain't fighting off alligators and living in a mud hut." In the Olympic Village, he swarmed over foreign athletes, yelling "Say cheese!" while he snapped photos, swapped team badges, slapped backs, and winked at pretty girls. They loved...