Word: amerasian
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...onetime child prodigy who performed her own compositions with the New York Philharmonic at 14, in later years made concert tours to many of the world's troubled areas, recounting her impressions in newspaper articles and several outspoken books (Who Killed the Congo), also helped found the Amerasian Foundation to aid the mothers of illegitimate children fathered by U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; in the crash of a U.S. Army helicopter; near Danang, South Viet Nam, where she was doubling as entertainer and correspondent for the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader...
...Widow Buck, now 74, took a motherly interest in Harris, now 36, named him president and executive director of her tax-exempt Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which since 1964 has raised $155,000 to help care for about 1,000 of the hundreds of thousands of rejected, mixed-blooded "Amerasian" youths who since 1945 have been fathered by American servicemen from Korea to Viet Nam. Mrs. Buck and Harris swung across the U.S. last year on a fund-raising tour that actually turned into one long interview-with the aide asking the questions and the author chattering away about China...
Saigon (Paramount), where Alan Ladd turns up with Veronica Lake after his fatiguing operations in China and Calcutta, concerns a lot of Amerasian hugger-mugger over a stray $500,000. During the film, at least three well-paid players die for the purpose of bringing Alan and Veronica together. It seems a shocking waste of life until, doubtless referring to all the money Saigon is sure to make at the box office, Paramount has Veronica explain: "All this happened because it had to happen...