Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson will have to decide whether to 1) stall, 2) ask Congress to erase all or part of the income tax reductions for which he battled last year, 3) seek new revenues from excess profit taxes and imposts on luxuries (as Harry Truman did to finance the Korean War) or 4) try a relatively painless palliative such as increasing the amount of income tax withheld from paychecks or accelerating corporate tax payments. Whatever the solution, catching up with the rabbit may not be the easiest of encounters for Lyndon Johnson...
Died. General Kodendera Subayya Thimayya, 59, Indian commander since last year of the U.N. peacekeeping force on Cyprus, who gained widespread respect for his supervision of the Panmunjom prisoner exchange after the Korean War, then rose to commander-in-chief of the Indian army, but quit in 1959 over the pro-Red policies of Defense Minister Krishna Menon, only to return following Menon's ouster and earn the Cyprus job, which he carried out so well that the U.N. Security Council had just voted to extend his stay by three months; of a heart attack; in Nicosia, Cyprus...
...former (1947-51) Army Surgeon General who, as his service's top medical officer, was instrumental in unifying the armed forces medical-supply system, pushed for higher fitness standards among draftees, and generally improved combat medical facilities to the point where he was able to report a Korean War death rate among wounded of just under 2% (vs. 4.5% in World War II); of complications from emphysema; in Tucson, Arizona...
Over from Ireland. During the first eleven months of 1965, 2,200,000 additional people have found employment (or have been sought out for it), the largest year-to-year increase since the Korean War buildup. Even so, the November work week was the longest (41.4 hours) in more than two decades, and average overtime (3.8 hours) came close to a record. Naturally, pay has risen with demand: workers in manufacturing earned $2.64 an hour in November v. $2.55 a year ago. Reports the National Industrial Conference Board...
...labor market is now as tight as during the Korean War-and Viet Nam could tighten it further...