Korean Leader Seeks to Replace Chinese in Korean Writing
President Park Chung Hee proposes removing Chinese characters from written Korean. The 1-year-old army general who led a 1961 coup and won the 1963 and 1967 elections argues for discarding ancient social customs. He aims to standardize Korean writing by abandoning Chinese script.
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Seoul
UPI
Park Chung-Hee
Land of the Morning
Park
Sejong
Korea
China
Lee Sang-Un
Korea University
Lee Hee-Sung
Sungkyunkwan University
Blount vows to move mail if workers strike
Postmaster General Winton Blount warned he would move the mail if postal workers strike. National Postal Union president David Silvergleid and Letter Carriers Union head James Rademacher warned of wildcat action and possible demonstrations if wage deals fail. Blount suggested outsourcing emergency mail handling might be possible, amid rising rank and file militancy and federal pay dispute.
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Blount
Washington
UPD
Winton M.blount
UPI
David Silvergleid
National Postal Union
Rademacher
James Rademacher
Silvergleid
Post Office Department
Amherst to close Feb 24 in service day change
Amherst Public Schools will hold an in service day for teachers on February 24, shifting from the original February 17 date. Milton J. Arter, administrative assistant, says students will have no classes on that Sunday as part of the schedule update.
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Amherst Schools
Amherst
Milton J. Arter
X rays show empty tomb in Vienna cathedral
In Vienna, authorities seek Friedrich II who died in 1493 as X rays reveal no bones in his tomb at St. Stephen's Cathedral. The search of archives yields no clues to remains. Experts suspect the body was never placed in the planned 15th century monument.
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Vienna
UPD
St. Stephans
Friedrich II
Rudolf Bachleitner
Friedrich
Niklas Gerhaert van Layden
Maximilian I
Maximilian
Cider Champion Faces Court Over Disorderly Conduct
PORTISHEAD England UP I Fifteen months after winning Britain's national cider drinking title George Lefeuvre appeared in court charged with drunk and disorderly conduct and assaulting a policeman His lawyer said cider dominates his life and the judge imposed a six month suspended sentence on the assault charge and a 12 dollar fine for drunkenness
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Portishead
England
UPI
George Lefeuvre
Britain
George
Colin Harvey
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