Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stem from the Eisenhower Administration's "new look" decision to get a bigger bang for a buck by curtailing the weapons of conventional war and concentrating on the massive nuclear deterrent. From a peak strength of 1,668,579 men and a budget of $21.6 billion during the Korean war, the Army slumped in peacetime to 856,000 men and $9.5 billion...
...87th had labored hard and long-longer, in fact, than any Congress since the Korean War session of 1951. It voted the biggest appropriations in U.S. peacetime history-some $95.8 billion. But the distinguishing feature of the 87th Congress lay not in the hours it worked or the money it spent. Rather, what set the 87th apart was the fact that it was dominated by the House of Representatives, long dubbed the lower branch. In exercising its leadership the House often thwarted the will not only of the Senate but of the man in the White House...
President Pusey leaves this morning for the Korean capital city of Seoul, the first stop on his nine-week visit to universities of the free nations of Asia...
...tested, Washington-wise administrator that Dillon needs to run the daily routine of the department. A onetime lawyer for TVA, Fowler has served as counsel for a Senate subcom mittee, the Federal Power Commission and the War Production Board. He headed the Office of Defense Mobilization during the Korean war. Thorough, cautious and sound, Fowler worked on the task force that John Kennedy set up before his inauguration to consider antirecession plans...
...Truman assigned Smith to another tour of duty-to clean up the Central Intelligence Agency, then under a cloud because of inept intelligence in the Korean war. Smith swept house ruthlessly (in his first month as CIA chief, he fired 600 employees). Three years later, when Dwight Eisenhower became President, he transferred his old friend and aide to the State Department, as John Foster Dulles' under secretary and general manager of the U.S. Foreign Service. In 1954, after 44 years of public service, Beedle Smith retired to civilian life, as vice chairman of American Machine & Foundry...