Word: inchon
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...brown shoulders at a dinner party Harold Robbins is throwing for Pia Zadora, the star of a new movie made from his novel Lonely Lady-and one of the year's show-off starlets for photographers. The experiences of one party provide conversational fodder for the next. "Loved Inchon," said one professional gadfly the day after the $45 million movie financed by Sun Myung Moon premiered to near unanimous pans. "Inchon the movie?" asked an incredulous colleague. "No," the gadfly replied. "Inchon the dinner...
DIED. James Doyle, 83, vice admiral who in 1950, while serving in the Korean War under General Douglas MacArthur, brilliantly commanded the amphibious landing of the First Marine Division at Inchon, leading to the liberation of Seoul from Communist troops, and later oversaw the two-week evacuation of 200,000 soldiers and civilians from Hungnam under heavy enemy fire; in Oakland, Calif...
...guests had plowed through Hearts of MacArthichoke d'Inchon and toyed with their Filet de Sole au Yalu River. They had survived bowls of kimchi, the mouth-searing concoction of pickled cabbage, hot peppers and garlic that is Korea's national dish. And now, with the speeches over, here they are, clustered around a piano in the Marriott Key Bridge Hotel, singing. Except for the gray in the hair, and a sagging of chests toward the belt line, the scene suggests (as it is meant to) a press billet in the city of Taegu, say, three decades...
DIED. Edward M. (Ned) Almond, 86, whip-cracking Army infantry commander who as Douglas MacArthur's chief of staff in Korea in September 1950 led the bold landing behind enemy lines on the treacherous shores of Inchon that turned the tide of the war; in San Antonio...
When his third war broke out in Korea, MacArthur was 70, but he took vigorous charge of United Nations forces. He engineered the Inchon landings behind the enemy's lines, one of the most startlingly successful maneuvers of all time. He then recklessly and arrogantly pressed his luck. Despite repeated warning signs from Peking, he pushed U.S. troops up to the Manchurian border. Massed Chinese soldiers intervened and drove U.N. troops into a bitter winter retreat. The war was needlessly widened at the very moment that victory was in sight...