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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Major General Pak was once an avowed Communist who helped organize an army revolt in 1948; he was sentenced to death by Syngman Rhee's officers but was released after reportedly undergoing a conversion and informing on the entire Communist network. Now vocally and violently antiCommunist, he rose to be the army's chief of operations. Disgusted with the corruption of Rhee's regime, General Pak is said to have planned a revolt early last year, but the student mobs that ousted Rhee beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: The Army Takes Over | 5/26/1961 | See Source »

Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). One of the week's major news stories, told by network reporters with Walter Cronkite as anchor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 19, 1961 | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...toughest TV critic yet to appear in the U.S. last week dared the station and network operators and owners to sit down in front of their sets from sign-on to sign-off. They would see, he told them, "a vast wasteland-a procession of game shows, violence, audience participation shows, formula comedies about totally unbelievable families, blood and thunder, mayhem, violence, sadism, murder, western bad men, western good men, private eyes, gangsters, more violence, and cartoons. And, endlessly, commercials-many screaming, cajoling and offending. And, most of all, boredom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The People Own the Air | 5/19/1961 | See Source »

...unsuitable for the human intellect as pulling huge stones to build the Pyramids was for human muscles. Some day, currency and coins will be only for the rural areas. If you buy a necktie or a house, your thumb before an electronic scanner will identify you, and the network will debit your account and credit the seller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Goodbye to Money | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

Eyewitness to History (CBS, 10:30-11 p.m.). A major news story, covered by the network's operatives. With Walter Cronkite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: May 12, 1961 | 5/12/1961 | See Source »

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