Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charge came from a physician with an unusual background. Los Angeles-born Donald L. Donohugh was 17 when Pearl Harbor interrupted his premedical studies at U.C.L.A. He enlisted, then got an appointment to the Naval Academy. Graduating in 1946, Donohugh served six years (through the Korean war) before he could get to medical school (California, '56). After interning in San Diego and a residency in Monterey, he signed up for a two-year stint as a civilian medical officer in Samoa, took his wife and children to Pago Pago. There, last month, convinced that his alarm signals about leprosy...
Died. Reuben Buck Robertson Jr., 51, husky, shirtsleeved president (since 1950) of the Champion Paper & Fibre Co. of Hamilton, Ohio (1959 sales: $169 million), director of B. F. Goodrich Co. and Procter & Gamble Co., onetime (during the Korean war) member of the Wage Stabilization Board and former (1955-57) first assistant to Defense Secretary Charles Wilson; in a traffic accident; in Cincinnati...
...could expand it, squeeze out many foreign competitors and U.S. domestic sugar producers, which supply 53% of the U.S. market. Elimination of the quota system would bring violent price swings and leave the U.S. open to high prices or shortages during an international crisis, such as Suez or the Korean...
...conquering Americans. But he decided to side with Rhee, and was appointed director of national police by the U.S. Military Government. Rhee made him ambassador to the U.N. in 1949 and his Interior Minister in 1950. But Chough criticized Rhee's release of thousands of North Korean prisoners in defiance of U.N. orders. For this, Chough was bloodily beaten by hoodlums in Pusan...
...whose steps were covered with snow that had drifted in through the station's broken roof. Someone slipped, and in seconds the stair shaft was corked with screaming, struggling people. When the rush was over, 31 were dead, eleven of them children, in the worst railway disaster in Korean history...