Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bell has roamed the world in pursuit of the big stories, and some little ones. On and off he covered the fighting in Korea, the Congo and Viet Nam. Leaving for Korea, he said: "I feel like the firehouse Dalmatian when the bell rings." At Inchon, he became the Korean War's 27th casualty among newsmen when he suffered a fractured arm and chest injuries...
...President willing to accept retired General James Gavin's theory that U.S. troops should pull back to a series of coastal enclaves. This notion is chiefly supported by Pundit Walter Lippmann, former Korean War Commanding General Matthew Ridgway, who has long argued against committing U.S. troops to the Asian
Double Standard. By that measure, at least, even Fulbright was a realist last week. After his committee's second session on Viet Nam, the Arkansas Democrat complained: "I have never seen an issue on which there has been such uncertainty. There were no such differences in the Korean War or World War II. One reason is that this situation isn't very clear...
...almost a whole generation of young Americans, the draft has been something for someone else to worry about. It provided the muscle for the U.S. in two World Wars and the Korean conflict, but in recent years its call has been gentle and muted. An average of hardly more than 100,000 men a year were called, only a small percentage of the total eligible to serve. Deferments, for school or for skill, were easy to get. American youngsters regarded the draft as either a remote threat or, at worst, a necessary chore that might produce a rewarding tour...
...JUNE PAIK, 33, a Korean, is a devotee of Composer John Cage, and his primary ambition was to compose far-out sounds. Electronic music inspired him to make electronic art, just as the Russian composer Scriabin made a motorized light display to accompany his Prometheus half a century ago. Now living in New York City, Paik buys up old television sets, scrambles the images they receive with electromagnetic coils and magnets. The results are a vertigo of discombobulated images, an early show of what kinetic art might become. "There are 4,000,000 dots per second on one TV screen...