Word: kim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minded President Syngman Rhee, who once underwent torture at Japanese behest and has no love for them either, has all along insisted that Japan must pay him compensation for taking the Koreans in. One big reason: he already has more manpower than he can find jobs for. In contrast, Kim II Sung's devastated and manpower hungry Communist North Korea is eager to take in all the Koreans it can find...
Last week two Soviet ships, Tobolsk and Krilyon, steamed into Japan's Niigata harbor to pick up the first load of 975 repatriates, who had marched to the embarkation center waving red flags and singing The Song of Kim II Sung. The minds of most of their passengers had long been prepared by Soren, the Communist-financed society that controls 90% of Korean schools in Japan. The Koreans had had an undeniably miserable time in Japan. After years of work, most had less than 15,000 yen ($42) to their names. In an old U.S. Air Force barracks, they...
With her second Broadway role, Anne Bancroft has given her answer-and upstaged her contemporaries. At the summit of the American theater, Julie Harris, Geraldine Page and Kim Stanley have a brilliant new competitor. Such names as Hayes, Cornell and Fontanne ring distant on the ear-echoes from another generation. "We've come to the end of gracious ladies in the theater," says Producer Harold S. (Fiorello!) Prince. "Why, I don't know. But this girl Bancroft is the greatest there is. She marks the beginning...
...court-martialed. Other underpaid officers (a four-star general gets only $174 a month) had coolly pocketed payrolls for their own troops. Stolen military supplies had become so important to the South Korean economy that in June, when investigators stripped 1,829 army tires from civilian vehicles, Transport Minister Kim II Hwan had to beg Song to call them off-"Otherwise Seoul and other cities will be without any public transport...
...motor boat in the roughest seas, set off powerful firecrackers (one of which ruptured his eardrum). He often buys clothes for his wife, personally outfitted the entire wedding party of one of his three daughters, all married (he also has three sons, Edgar Jr., 17, Henry, 15, and Kim, 11, in Eastern prep schools). Whether Edgar and his wife are ensconced in their six-bedroom, Spanish-style home in Lafayette, Calif, or speeding around the world, being with him, says Mrs. Kaiser, is "living with mayhem-and enjoying...