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...policies-he defended the election-day massacre in Masan with the cold comment: "The police were given guns to shoot with, not as toys"-Lee has willingly served as whipping boy for all Rhee's political excesses. In Rhee's eyes, this has more than offset the fact that Lee has appeared in South Korea's National Assembly only a handful of times since he became its Speaker, recently admitted that he did not know when he could discharge his official duties "because the doctors do not tell...
...would-be home owners on such qualities as descent, way of life (American?), occupation (Typical of his own race?), swarthiness (Very? Medium? Slightly? Not at all?), accent (Pronounced? Medium? Slight? None?), name (Typically American?), repute, education, dress (Neat or slovenly? Conservative or flashy?), status of occupation (sufficient eminence may offset poor grades in other respects). Religion is not scored, but weighed in the balance by a three-man Grosse Pointe screening committee. All prospects are handicapped on an ethnic and racial basis: Jews, for example, must score a minimum of 85 points, Italians 75, Greeks 65, Poles 55; Negroes...
...other site, but has now declined so sharply that surgeons in some areas cannot find enough cases for comparative research. Reason for the drop (40% to 50%), Director John R. Heller of the National Cancer Institute (TIME cover, July 27) told Congress, is unknown. And it is more than offset by the increase in lung cancer...
Until 1958, printing facilities were so limited on Formosa that all the printers could do was supply enough books for Formosa's 30,000 college students and send a trickle of texts throughout Southeast Asia. But then Formosan printers began to buy efficient German offset presses and modern bookbinding equipment, partly with the help of U.S. ICA loans. With modern machines, printers' wages of only $12 a month, and cheap paper, the Formosan pirates went into mass production, soon were offering a U.S. book within three months of its publication...
...textile industry last week laid before the Tariff Commission a country-by-country quota-protection program to offset the flood of foreign cotton imports. Bruised by competition from abroad, domestic cotton manufacturers recommended that each foreign country be limited to the volume of its 1955 cotton exports to the U.S. Otherwise, U.S. textile producers will be placed in the position where they will have to establish overseas plants to take advantage of less expensive foreign manufacturing facilities...