Word: bando
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dreadful as Miss Aulin remains a total mystery. This 18-year-old girl has no discernible talent for comedy and tends to deliver her lines as if she were practising English elocution. The people around her (among them Charles Aznavour, Ringo Starr, Richard Burton, John Huston, Walter Matthau, Marlon Bando and James Coburn) manage to look like they had a hell of a good time making the film, but, alas, this does nothing for the audience...
Curfew & Censorship. One squad headed straight for the Bando Hotel to arrest Manhattan-educated Premier John M. Chang, whom the army expected to find asleep in his eighth-floor suite. But Chang and his family had slipped away a few minutes before, were already safely hidden at a friend's house. When dawn came, the coup was complete. Seoul seemed almost normal but for the heavy guards at every intersection and the orders blaring over the radio from the headquarters of peppery little Lieut. General Chang Do Yung, 38, chief of staff of the 600,000-man ROK army...
...days that followed, Lucas stuck to his guns, defending the person and regime of President Syngman Rhee. Soon he began getting threatening telephone calls in his Bando Hotel room in Seoul. Provided with an armed guard by Rhee, Lucas hastily packed his gear, flew off to safety in Tokyo. There, last week, he was still shaken by his experience. "Whoever leads the Republic of Korea in the months ahead will govern at the pleasure of the mob," wrote Lucas. "That this could happen in Korea - which I've come to regard as my second home - is unbelievable...