Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...records of the deaths he verified in two camps during 20 months of capture. The Chinese took the records away from him, but "I remembered the figures." Exactly 2,538. mostly American. "It was just starvation and disease," said he. "We could always feel the lice crawling over us." Care got better and fewer men died after the Korean truce talks began...
Said the broadcast: ". . . To all brave pilots who wish to free themselves from the Communist yoke and start a new, better life with proper honor . . . you are guaranteed refuge, protection, human care and attention. If pilots so desire, their names will be kept secret forever . . ." Escaping pilots were told to fly at 20,000 feet to Paengnyong Island off Korea's west coast, lower their wheels, waggle their wings. U.N. pilots, they were promised, would escort them to Kimpo Airfield, near Seoul...
...dangerous. But when the group's guiding spirit is Joseph McCarthy, the situation becomes equally perilous for the rights of privacy and fair hearing. As part of his Committee correspondence, the supposedly objective chairman, McCarthy, addressed a telegram to witness James Wechler, editor of the N. Y. Post, in care of Howard Lawson--Wechler's alleged pseudonym during his Communist Party days. Since the point under exploration, while distant from any possibility of prospective legislation or other constructive result, is Wechler's present political convictions, such a move pressages a biased committee...
From the San Francisco Examiner to the Roanoke World News to the Boston Globe, editorial comment was enthusiastically favorable, the survey found. According to the New York Herald Tribune, the statement "might have. . .responded only by negativism and obstruction. Happily, the AAU. . .has taken care to see that this is not the verdict. A report six months in the making . . . will stand as an authoritative statement of doctrine, in the light of which men's intentions can be judged...
While the position was open I received word that a couple, about whom I made inquiries, was ready to accept. Thereafter I received several calls applying for the job and my secretary or I informed those calling that the position was probably filled but if they would care to leave their number we would call back if our plans fell through. Some of the calls I took myself, and to some of those calling, when I had the time, I outlined the duties required of the couple at the club. At no time was the name, or the race...