Word: korean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economics at Yale ('43); and, after World War II service as an artillery captain (Bronze Star, Croix de guerre with silver star), another degree, in law, at George Washington University ('48). Merwin went back to the islands to practice, left again for active duty in the Korean...
...arguing the U.S. case,'both in open debate and in the incessant lobbying that goes on at the U.N. between debates. He proved his mettle as a tactician early in his U.N. career when he had to defend the unpopular U.S. proposal for a "two-sided" (no neutrals) Korean peace conference instead of the "roundtable" (neutrals present) conference urged by Britain, backed by the Soviet bloc. A round-table conference, said Lodge, would resemble an old-fashioned Mother Hubbard dress, "covering everything and touching nothing." At the Political Committee showdown on the British resolution, Lodge lost...
...last war," Gavin compares the Maginot Line, the French elaboration of their World War I trench tactics, with the present-day U.S. preoccupation with bombers and bases. A peace-or-bomb world would be a simpler place to live in, says he, but various Communist aggressions since the Korean war prove that it is not that kind of world. And once his much loved Army has added its potential to the strength of bombers, "we must learn to think of the earth as a tactical entity and of space as the next great strategic challenge...
...Yvette's tiny house in the tiny hamlet of Mont-d'Origny (pop. 1,500), the Battle of the Bulge raged a hundred miles to the east in the snowy Ardennes, Hiroshima was bombed, China fell to the Communists, bandits stole a million dollars in Boston, the Korean war began and ended, General Dwight Eisenhower became President of the U.S.. Stalin died, King Farouk fled Egypt, Mount Everest was scaled, Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier, Nasser seized the Suez Canal-nations fought and statesmen died and the seasons made their slow revolve in the Norman fields around...
Died. Captain Iven C. Kincheloe Jr., 30, U.S.A.F. jet pilot, Korean war ace, holder of the world's altitude record (nearly 24 miles up in the Bell X-2 rocket plane), designated to fly the missile-like X-15 now being built to go higher than 100 miles; in the crash of his F-104 Starfighter; near Edwards Air Force Base, Calif...