Word: koreas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...handsome, athletic six-footer will be the youngest Commerce Secretary in history and youngest current member of the Cabinet.* A Princeton honors graduate and winner of a Bronze Star in Korea as a Marine second lieu tenant, New Jersey-born Trowbridge was president of Esso Standard Oil Co. of Puerto Rico before joining Commerce as an Assistant Secretary two years...
...World War II, a fighter pilot was considered past his prime at 25, his reflexes and aggressiveness dangerously eroded. Even in Korea, the younger jet jockeys sneered over their bourbon at the middle-aged reserve officers who joined in dogfights with Red Chinese MIGs over the 38th parallel. Yet America's top MIG killer in the swirling scuffles over North Viet Nam these days is a greying, 44-year-old Air Force colonel who won his first aerial victories a generation ago against German Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulfs...
...intermediate-range weapons that could reach Saigon from North Viet Nam. And the week's casualties pushed U.S. deaths in Viet Nam over the 10,000 mark, making Viet Nam the fifth costliest war in U.S. history (after World War II, the Civil War, World War I and Korea...
...first clashed with Poats, 44, when he was chief of AID for the Far East and overseer of the crash program to bolster South Viet Nam's chaotic economy during the herculean U.S. buildup in 1965-66. After Bayh learned that AID officials had bought galvanized steel from Korea for quick shipment to Viet Nam, he lambasted Poats and insisted that AID purchase primarily U.S. steel. Though the Senator comes up for re-election next year in a state that has a large steel industry, he claimed his opposition to Poats was based purely on his belief that Poats...
...last week at Carnegie Hall, the Leventritt jury outdid itself. It ranked the four violin finalists so closely that it took the unprecedented step of asking each to play again. Then, for the first time in the competition's 27-year history, it named two winners: Korea's Kyung-Wha Chung, 19, and Israel's Pinchas Zuckerman, 18, both scholarship students at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and products of eminent Juilliard Teacher Ivan Galamian...