Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commanding general of the U.S. Eighth Army, commander in chief of the United Nations Command and commander of U.S. Forces-Korea. The crucial I Corps Group forces are commanded by Lieut. General James P. ("Holly") Hollingsworth, 57, a veteran of World War II and Viet Nam; packing a pearl-handled revolver and generously salting his vocabulary, he frequently boasts that, if challenged, his men will "destroy the North Koreans with violence." The U.S. also controls all of Korea's air defenses and the sophisticated, countrywide military-communications network...
Last week's debut included irregularly spaced servings of national and international news from network correspondents, as well as book and movie reviews, interviews with Jerry Lewis and Pearl Bailey, features on natural childbirth and photography, and a two-part series on the war against cancer. Says NIS Director Roy Wetzel, who designed NBC's all-news package: "People will listen to radio news for more than an hour if you provide them with something interesting...
...festive mood continued that evening at a jubilant white-tie state dinner at the White House. On hand once again was a large complement of notables, including Comedian Bob Hope, Singer Pearl Bailey, Dancer Fred Astaire, Auto Executive Henry Ford II and his wife Cristina, and Pan American World Airways Chairman William Seawell. Without specifically mentioning the Mayaguez affair, the Shah congratulated the President "for the great leadership and the right decisions that you took for your country." The state dining room rang with applause as the Shah lifted his glass of Schramsberg Blanc de Blanc to Ford...
...done more to cultivate the friendship of Germany and Japan after World War I instead of being antagonistic, "there wouldn't have been any Hitler." The Japanese, he declared, were "provoked to a certain extent by people, by interests in this country that helped to bring about Pearl Harbor." Without the war against the Axis powers, there would be today a "good buffer in the East against the Soviet and Chinese expansion plans...
...have to recognize that the almost unanimous popular and congressional support of a highly activist foreign policy, which lasted from Pearl Harbor in 1941 to about the middle of the 1960s, was something new in American history. The older American pattern was popular apathy about foreign affairs, in which the President often shared, or else a sharply divided public opinion...