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...Korea, offered the option, 14,000 Chinese prisoners of war (out of 20,000) refused to return to their homes and families in Red China, chose Formosa instead. ¶When the Nationalists evacuated the Tachen Islands off the coast of Chekiang province in 1955, the islands' civilian populace was given the choice of evacuation to Formosa or acceptance of Communist rule. Of the islands' 18,500 inhabitants, exactly 19 chose to remain and await the Communist administration...
Football's first big Saturday of 1958 put to a test the game's first scoring change in 46 years. After a touchdown, teams now have the option of using the time-honored place kick for one point, or the run or pass for two. The rule was designed to cut down tie games, give leading teams a chance to exert extra pressure and trailing teams a better chance to catch up. Most teams settled for the safer kick (chances of success: about 65%) rather than risk the run or pass (chances: about 35%), especially if they scored...
Containing this passing potential will be the Crimson's main chore this afternoon, but it will also have to be on the lookout for Skypeck running off the option and for the powerful rushes of 190-pound Phil Taylor, one of Cornell's leading ground-gainers last fall...
...sale, but no builders would buy, because the city's plans for the project seemed too high-class for the moderate rents it wanted to charge. Finally, in 1954, a group of citizens, ranging from Henry Ford to the U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther, obtained a 90-day option. With James W. Bell, Detroit City Planner, as coordinator, the group raised $450,000 in loans, set itself a high goal: no regimentation, no restrictions, the most advanced technology and design ("We must be mindful that we are building for 50 to 100 years"), yet a range of prices that...
...local school boards under court integration orders have the option of closing down or integrating (the assumption was that few would care to desegregate...