Word: chungli
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...loss to the U.N.'s prestige by his journey, which was heralded in Asia as a "great diplomatic victory for Red China." Hong Kong's anti-Communist newspaper Sing Tao Man Pao commented bitterly: "Hammarskjold went as a lung [dragon] but came back as a chung [worm...
Stocky, sharp-faced Journalist Paik Chung Muk, 38, is foreign-educated (Japan and Germany) and possessor of a biting intellectual intensity. Said he: "I read every work Harold Laski wrote. I worshiped him for years. Then I realized I was wrong. Now I am back on more solid ground." What had wrought the change? Paik downed the equivalent of half a jigger of Four Roses whisky from a cracked porcelain cup, chased it with a handful of warm pine nuts, and went on: "Many of my former friends are now with the Communists in the north. I almost went with...
...soldier stopped by to see an old friend, Britain's Major General M. M. Alston-Roberts-West (said West later: "He knew as much about my division and what it has on the line as I did myself"). Ike the President-elect told South Korea's General Chung Il Kwon: "As far as I'm-concerned, you ROKs are going to be a lot bigger & better." Ike the general visited an Army mobile hospital and chatted briefly with the patients...
...Sniper Ridge, on the rugged sector north of Kumhwa, it was a joint effort by South Koreans and by Americans of the U.S. 7th Division (TIME, Oct. 27). Later, Triangle as well as Sniper was taken over by Koreans of the ROK 2nd Division, commanded by Lieut. General Chung II Kwon, who last week was appointed deputy commander of Major General Reuben E. Jenkins' IX Corps.* Chung's men stood fast against continuous Chinese probes, and General Mark Clark, on a tour of the front lines, praised them for "magnificent fighting...
...sentimental sense of loss. Before Pearl Harbor, plaster casts had been made of the ancient bones and shipped to a number of Western museums. The cast of a female Peking cranium, fondly known as Suzanne, was built up into a composite skull. Then, early last spring, Dr. Pei Wen-chung, one of the men who found remnants of Peking man in a limestone cave at Choukoutien, sounded off in the Chinese Communist newspaper, Ta Kung Pao. The Japanese had indeed captured the fossils, he said: they had been shipped to Tokyo, later seized by American forces and shipped...