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From Pusan in the south to Panmunjom on the war-famed 38th parallel, fireworks lit up the sky and brass bands blared in the plazas of South Korea. It was the first anniversary of General Park Chung Hee's successful army coup, and it marked his junta's success in honoring the pledge it made when it seized power -to give South Korea "a new life...
Tears in the Lobby. When the news of Hammarskjold's missing plane clattered into Manhattan on the Telex line direct from Leopoldville, shocked secretariat officials rushed to the cable room on the U.N. skyscraper's 38th floor, hovered anxiously for hours over the machine. When the final bulletin confirmed the Secretary's death, one high-ranking officer turned to another. "I suppose we should lower the flag." he said dully. "Yes." replied the other, "perhaps we should." Below, news was already spreading from floor to floor. Pale and shaken employees gathered in groups in the corridors...
...hand (he spent almost a year in a Communist jail in 1950-51), Moffett knew what part of the globe to study. At length he chose the barren, wind-whipped Paeng Yong Islands, South Korea's farthest outpost in the Yellow Sea. lying a hairline south of the 38th parallel and only 7,000 yds. from Communist shore batteries...
...representatives of nine African states had joined Hammarskjold in his 38th floor dining room looking out over the thrusting towers of midtown Manhattan. Some of the Africans angrily demanded that the U.N. fight its way into Katanga. Trading on his status as a fellow Afro-Asian, Tunisia's Slim forcefully argued the Hammarskjold line that an appeal to force would lead to a Security...
...Brakes. In Brownsville, Texas, celebrating his 80th birthday and 38th consecutive year as Cameron County judge, Oscar C. Dancy accounted for his longevity: "I've never owned nor driven an automobile...