Word: joy
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Day. Before leaving Munsan in his helicopter for the first day of the truce talks, Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, the chief U.N. negotiator, scribbled a word for the throng of newsmen who were being left behind. "We, the delegation from the United Nations command, are leaving for Kaesong fully conscious of the importance of these meetings to the entire world. We are proceeding in good faith to do our part to bring about an honorable armistice . . ." The word "honorable" was heavily underscored. Supreme Commander Ridgway accompanied the admiral to his 'copter. As the machine rose, Joy, responding...
...Admiral Joy delivered an opening statement in which he assured the Reds of U.N. good faith. The heart of his statement was that the U.N. delegation would not discuss political or economic matters, or military matters outside of Korea...
...Kinney and his teammates stepped out, poker-faced and silent. Their official communique: the preliminary conference had been successful. The actual cease-fire negotiations would get under way at Kaesong on Tuesday of this week. At this meeting, the U.N. team will be headed by Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy (see box). The Communist delegation will be composed of three North Koreans, General Nam II, General Chang Pyong San and Major General Lee Sang Cho, and two Chinese, Generals Teng Hua and Hsieh Fang...
Vice Admiral Charles Turner Joy, 56, Commander, Naval Forces in the Far East, got his first taste of Pacific warfare as operations officer of the cruiser Indianapolis during the Battle of Bougainville. Later, from his battle post as commander of the cruiser Louisville, he was pulled back to Washington to head the Navy's important Pacific Plans Division, given sea duty once more as commander of Cruiser Division 6 during the assault on Saipan, the landings at Guam, Peleliu, Leyte and Lingayen Gulf. A blue-water man (Annapolis, class of 1916), he is a crack ordnance expert, a good...
...rake" (see cut), cemented to the child's teeth. This, he concedes, "has the double misfortune of looking vicious and being called by [a] distasteful name." But it has the double virtue, he argues, of keeping the thumb out and the tongue back. (Many children, denied the joy of thumbsucking, seek solace in pushing the tongue against the front teeth.) The hay rake, says Dr. Mack, is always successful within a few months, and most young patients bear no grudge against the man who installs...