Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More and more, that phrase has come to mean ads with a sense of entertainment and humor. One of Benton & Bowles's most successful TV ads, for example, features the bull-necked Korean who played the karate expert Odd Job in Goldfinger. Seized with a coughing fit, he nearly chops down his house with involuntary hand swipes before a swig of Vick's Formula 44 cough medicine calms him down. Even Ted Bates & Co., perennial champion of the hard sell, is going soft. It has dropped the sledgehammer animations it long used to illustrate (and often give) headache...
Almost totally overshadowed by events in Viet Nam, talks between U.S. and North Korean negotiators on the fate of Pueblo and her 82 surviving crewmen moved at a glacial pace in Panmunjom last week. The U.S. had little choice but to pursue the painstaking diplomatic route that it has been following since the ferret ship was seized at sea three weeks ago. "I don't know any way of getting them out alive by military action," said a top-echelon State Department official. "You might get them out as corpses...
...again at any moment." Reinforcing Kim's threat, the Soviet Union ordered a powerful 13-vessel squadron into the Sea of Japan as a counterforce to the strong U.S. task force there. While the nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise moved from a point 45 miles off the North Korean coast to about 100 miles in a tension-easing gesture, two smaller U.S. flattops and supporting ships maintained their close-in vigil...
...Seoul began to augment its regular forces by 15,000, announced it would arm 2,500,000 reservists and veterans. After Pueblo was seized last month, the U.S. began bringing its two divisions in the South up to their full 50,000-man strength, flew in planes to three Korean airbases, and promised to speed delivery of $30 million worth of military equipment designed to combat infiltration from the North. In addition, Lyndon Johnson asked Congress for an immediate military aid appropriation of $100 million -part of a $3 billion foreign aid program sent to Congress last week...
Because Seoul's prime concern is the infiltration of terrorists from the North, Washington's preoccupation with Pueblo caused friction between the U.S. and South Korea. After a spate of Korean protest demonstrations, editorials and official statements, the U.S. dispatched Troubleshooter Cyrus Vance to Seoul as a special presidential emissary empowered to discuss the "grave threat" from the North. In addition, Johnson went out of his way to laud "this steadfast ally" when he made his request for special military aid to South Korea. By week's end the handholding operation appeared to have been successful...