Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schedule, is supposed to be a day for rest and relaxation. But on his first presidential Saturday, Ike held what was, perhaps, his most important conference of the week. For half an hour he talked over Korean war problems with the new commander of the Eighth Army in Korea, Lieut. General Maxwell Taylor...
...with his division commander. So one day last week Private Walter N. Johnson was whisked from his battle post on Korea's western front and flown to Seoul. Bands were playing bravely as the 21-year-old Nebraskan was lined up with seven high-ranking U.N. officers at Eighth Army headquarters. Then His Serene Highness, Siamese Prince Pridi-debyabongs Davakul, pinned to the private's chest the Silver Medal of the Crown of. Thailand. What for? "I haven't the slightest idea," said Private Johnson, a veteran of only two months in Korea. "I never...
Snow-topped Anchor Hill, on Korea's east coast, is the northernmost point of the Eighth Army's 155-mile front. To the east lie the clear blue waters of the Sea of Japan. But" the South Koreans deeply dug in on Anchor's top seldom get a look at the sea or at anything else, for the enemy's artillery is zeroed in on the summit...
...share of the impounded estate of unbeautiful exiled brother Farouk. The lawyers acting for them will challenge the will of their father, the late King Fuad, which left all movable treasures in the royal palaces to Farouk; and base their claim on Islamic law, which gives each female one-eighth of the fam ily estate. The government's case: the estate is now public property, not subject to inheritance rules...
Married. Walter Francis John Montagu-Douglas-Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, 29, rangy, redheaded heir to the eighth Duke of Buccleuch (pronounced "buck-cloo"), long regarded as the front runner for Princess Margaret's hand; and Jane Mc-Neill, 22, ash-blonde, China-schooled fashion model and daughter of a Scottish barrister practicing in Hong Kong. Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh, Princess Margaret traveled by special train from Sandringham to join the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester and 1,600 other royal guests, socialites and privileged laborers and tenants of the Buccleuch estates (six ancestral homes...