Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...haired Tunner, 55, now a Virginia gentleman farmer, ran the Allied airlift over the hump between India and China in World War II, went on to mesh U.S., French and British aircraft into the effective lift that broke the Red blockade of Berlin, and after that to direct the Korean war air supply shuttle between Japan and Korea...
With a show of unanimity that obviously and accurately reflected a national determination, the U.S. Senate last week passed and sent to the House a $46,848,-292,000 defense appropriations bill-largest in peacetime history and equivalent to Korean-war levels. In its 85-0 vote, the Senate provided $11.8 billion for the Army, $14.5 billion for the Navy, $18.9 billion for the Air Force (including $750 million for manned bombers that President Kennedy had not requested and did not want) and $207 million for civil defense. Earlier in the week, responding to the President's pleas...
...World War I Army private who entered the Marines from Virginia Military Institute in 1921, Pate directed supply operations at Guadalcanal, did staff work on the Iwo Jima and Okinawa invasions, and assumed his only combat command-the 1st Marine Division-in the last months of the Korean...
...Korean women were advised not to wear jewelry, to "shun housemaids" and do their own housework, and to help "enlighten the public on the need for contraceptives." Korean men got the word to "refrain from exchanging vain tokens," to "avoid haggling over prices," and "to shake off the idea of making 'quick money.' " Both men and women were urged to greet each other each morning with the words "Let's reconstruct!" (foreign residents, including U.S. troops, "will also be encouraged to exchange this greeting"). To keep Koreans on their toes, there will be daily "reconstruction calisthenics...
From the back of the crowded, floodlit assembly room in Seoul's government headquarters came the question that was on everybody's mind. "Are you aware, General Pak," a Korean reporter ventured hesitatingly, "that the newspapers are afraid to criticize you?" Major General Pak Chung Hi, the flinty, gimlet-eyed boss of the junta that seized power in May, snapped back impatiently: "This is the first time I have heard of it. If this allegation is true, it is because you journalists are chicken-hearted...