Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Maxwell Taylor, in the Far East on a fact-finding tour before settling down to his new job as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, received South Korea's 30-jewelled Order of Service Merit for his leadership of the U.S. Eighth Army during the Korean War. Taylor later flew into Taiwan for weekend talks with Chiang Kaishek. Vice President Lyndon Johnson, in Italy to complete his 17-day, six-nation tour of the Middle East and Europe, was treated to a huge ovation in Naples. "Viva Johnson! Viva America!" cried the throngs. "Viva Napoli!" bellowed...
When South Korea's Strongman General Park Chung Hee seized power 15 months ago, he embarked on a harsh, puritanical crusade with the startling goal of "remaking Korean man." Park and his military junta jailed gamblers and black-market "businessmen," executed smugglers; taxi dancers were shunned as "decadent" and some 40,000 bureaucrats were slashed from the government payrolls as "too old, too inefficient, too insubordinate, or too opportunistic." Park shut down brothels and made the shapely hustlers pledge that they would lead a "decent life," and then sent them off to rehabilitation schools. But puritanism had a crippling...
Last week the government revised its antigambling laws in order to permit the completion of a miniature Las Vegas outside Seoul. Located on Walker Hill, which is named after the late U.S. General Walton H. Walker who led the U.N. campaign during the Korean war, the $3,800,000 complex will have five hotels, 13 motels, a 500-seat nightclub, and a gambling casino. Financed mainly by the Park government itself, the pleasure project is designed to attract foreign exchange from U.S. G.I.s who previously had traveled to Japan on their leaves...
Good Deal. The complex details of the disputed Hanna contracts seemed hardly the stuff for sensation. In 1952, with the Korean war dragging on, the U.S. Government needed great quantities of nickel for war production, especially for jet aircraft...
...done little to endear himself to bankers or fellow industrialists. He operated as a lone wolf, got rich by successively working for the Nazis as a steel expert, selling millions of dollars worth of steel to Communist East Germany, and swapping German steel for U.S. coal during the Korean war. Old-line German businessmen regarded him as "nicht salonfdhig"-not acceptable in drawing room society...