Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...topics ("Any discussion of plans for employment of strategic or tactical forces of the United States . . .") which it asked the press not to publish "during the current tense international situation." The effect of this request was much like the so-called "voluntary censorship" of World War II and the Korean war. The press is asked "to exercise caution and discretion." Since discretion is left to editors, it merely reinforces a sense of responsibility about the national interest that most editors, ourselves included, are mindful...
Inevitably, the restrictions drew loud protests. "A White House official," said the New York Times, "insisted that the White House request did not amount to the 'voluntary censorship' by which the press and radio were guided in World War II and the Korean war. Newspapermen who were in Washington during those two wars found it difficult to see where the difference lay." The New York Herald Tribune's Washington Correspondent David Wise accused President Kennedy of deliberate deception, and decided that this was worse than the crisis itself: "If the line between truth and falsehood should become...
...geared their campaigns to the economic problems that have kept their state stalled for the past decade. Decentralization of the auto industry has moved so many plants out of Michigan that only 32% of the nation's cars are now assembled there. During World War II and the Korean war, Michigan's auto plants received some 10% of all defense dollars. But the state has not kept pace with the demands of the electronics and missile age, now gets a meager 2.7% of defense spending. In addition, automation has thrown thousands of men out of work. Early...
Schirra spent time on carriers and at naval shore bases. When the Korean war got going, he was assigned to an Arkansas National Guard squadron as an exchange pilot. His flying mates remember him as "a gung-ho, heads-up, by-the-book Annapolis man." but they forgave him because he was such a good pilot. He flew 90 missions, mostly ground strafing and low-level bombing. His missions got him credit for 1½ MIGs, a Distinguished Flying Cross and two Air Medals. He also buzzed a U.S. camp, blew down lines of tents and was hotly reprimanded...
...Glenn Leasher, a 26-year-old dragster from Burlingame, Calif., showed up with an improbable creation called Infinity. Leasher and three partners pooled $12,000 to buy a surplus General Electric J47 jet engine complete with afterburner, the same power plant used in the F-86 Sabre jet of Korean war fame. The young dragster encased his engine in a 400-lb. aluminum body mounted on four wheels, added a pair of eight-foot parachutes for more braking power, and announced himself ready to beat the record. "If this thing ever takes off, it'll never come down...