Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also had time for state visitors and for golf. To Thailand's Prime Minister Phibun Songgram he presented the Legion of Merit, degree of Chief Commander (for sending a regimental combat team from the Royal Thai Army to assist in the Korean fighting). When the Premier bowed low and placed the tops of his fingers together before his chest, the traditional Asian "joining of palms" to express respect and appreciation, John Foster Dulles whispered to the President: "They don't shake hands in Thailand." Said Ike: "I know, I know. But we do." He gave Phibun a hearty...
...combat its reputation as an expensive country, France is plugging the low-cost package tour, e.g., an eight-day jaunt from Paris through the Loire Valley, along the Riviera and back for $100, including all transportation, food and hotels. The French national railway now offers a 30% discount on trips of 950 miles or longer, provided that the tourist stays at his destination for six days or more. And the new issue of the famed Guide Michelin, which has always concentrated on quality rather than price, now lists more than 2,000 restaurants where a traveler...
...last, with spring, comes the call to action. Garcet takes the long jeep ride into combat, full of zeal and professional hopes ("Promotions do not come to young lieutenants promenading on the Champs Elysées"). He soon learns that he is the New Boy at the Old School; his fellow officers reminisce about when the war was really tough; his hard-bitten platoon promptly dubs him "Battling Baby-Face...
...diligently preoccupied with killing man. There are also lighter moments-with Gallic, wine-happy R & Rs (Rest and Recuperators) in Japan. But Director Dupont never strays far from the terrible business that carried him, the French battalion and the tens of thousands of other U.N. soldiers into combat in Korea...
Actor Stewart, as always, is an infinite gangle of charm. He combat-flew his way up to full colonel and command of a B-24 wing in World War II, but to watch him shyly fumbling, in his usual screen style, at the controls of the world's fanciest yo-yo may give less comfort to his friends than to his country's enemies. Actress June Allyson, who looks so normal it almost seems she was not born but arrived by statistics, has been Jimmy's wife before (in The Stratton Story and The Glenn Miller Story...