Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Korean Handiwork. First to close with the Viet Cong was a company of South Korean marines dug in on the coastal flatlands of Quang Ngai province, long a Communist stronghold. The Koreans, members of the elite Blue Dragon brigade, had purposely positioned themselves in the open, hoping to draw the Communists down from the forested mountains for a set-piece battle. The Korean perimeter was in the shape of a valentine, laced with concertina wire and reinforced with concrete revetments. On the night of St. Valentine's Day, a North Vietnamese regiment of 1,500 men struck...
Screaming and blowing whistles, the North Vietnamese blasted their way through the wire with bangalore torpedoes, then rushed in with flamethrowers. Korean Captain Chung Kyong Gin, 32, swiftly sent two squads to plug the holes in the wire, then set his men loose to kill the Reds trapped inside the perimeter. It was knife to knife and hand to hand-and in that sort of fighting the Koreans, with their deadly tae kwon do (a form of karate), are unbeatable. When the action stopped shortly after dawn, 104 enemy bodies lay within the wire, many of them eviscerated or brained...
Last week the Commerce Department reported that inventories swelled at the precarious rate of $16.4 billion a year during the final quarter of 1966, thus breaking a record set during the Korean War. The resulting $135 billion inventory stockpile already is forcing manufacturers to cut production to avoid a glut of unsold autos, appliances and television sets...
...champagne ambassador," cutting a social swath unequaled before or since-and deluging Washington with memos warning against the rise of Nazi Germany and the dry rot in France. Largely retired after World War II, he spoke out for a U.S. naval blockade of Red China during the Korean War, sought support for invasion by Chiang Kaishek. Only last month his name was in the headlines with the publication of Thomas Woodrow Wilson-A Psychological Study, a sharply critical analysis written in 1939 with Sigmund Freud. He was, as a biographer once noted, "a man who never tastes the peace...
Abandoning his normal theater of operations in Hollywood, Director John Ford, 72, took an old costume out of mothballs-the dress blues identifying him as a rear admiral, U.S. Naval Reserve. A genuine salt with combat service during World War II and the Korean War, Ford arranged to put out with the fleet on three weeks' temporary active duty. Flying to Marseille, he caught up with the cruiser U.S.S. Columbus, joined the staff of an old war buddy, Rear Admiral John Bulkeley, who commands a Sixth Fleet flotilla. Admiral Ford posed on the bridge like Captain Bligh, then settled...