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...victor, K'ang-hsi tempered justice with shrewd compassion and love of discrimination. He changed a horse thief's sentence from beheading to exile, since "the nation was at peace and horse theft was therefore not so serious as it would have been in time of war." His dealings with the West were open and generous, yet appropriately wary. He allowed selected Jesuits to preach their faith in China and introduce scientific and technical learning. But when the Pope sent a sort of watchdog emissary to keep an eye on his Jesuit scholars, K'ang-hsi threw...
...place roamed the apartment complex, suggesting a change of lock here, a sturdier door there and providing other professional advice on security. Another Minneapolis felon recently brought his disabled car to the garage where he had once passed a $123 bad check that landed him in prison. One thief now gets along so well with the shopkeeper he once stole from that he was offered a job in the store...
...bent the rules sufficiently to be sent back to prison. Supervisor Johnson believes that it was one of them who burgled the Johnson apartment, leaving an anonymous thank-you note. The program will now try to improve results by dropping random selection. Meanwhile, there is special pride in the thief who last month became the center's first graduate. Now completely on his own, he is working full-time as a truck driver...
...league in five offensive categories: home runs (32), RBls (117), runs scored (99), game-winning hits (18) and "slugging percentage" -the production of extra-base hits (.531). He also managed to hit a very respectable .293, the tenth best A.L. average. On the base paths he is a daring thief, diving into bases to stretch singles to doubles or doubles to triples...
...tennis lesson in Manhattan's Central Park, John F. Kennedy Jr., 13, was mugged. A strapping youth, aged about 18, stepped into the boys' path, brandished a stick at John and said, "Get the hell off the bike." When John did not respond quickly enough, the thief knocked him to the ground, grabbed his tennis racket and sped off on his $145 ten-speed Bianchi racer. Secret Service men, who are charged with John's protection until his 16th birthday, were red-faced. Apparently John had passed up a ride in the Secret Service car, jumped...