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...conspirators handled it like baddies in a Buster Keaton film. One of them showed up at the Pusan airport with overweight baggage, left behind a suitcase containing an incriminating note in English ("Turn your nose north; your life will be spared"). Another dashed off hysterically at plane time, held up departure long enough to fire off a telegram implicating his brother. But once in the air, the conspirators were professional enough. As the Korean National Airlines plane neared Seoul, they held U.S. civilian pilot, Willis Hobbs, at pistol point. Instead of touching down at Seoul, the twin-engined...
Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Last Train to Pusan, with Gary Merrill as a prosperous U.S. businessman caught in Korea on the eve of battle (color...
...didn't die." In 1950 the Communists ran into much the same situation. They took over the school's buildings, but by the time they did. President Kim and 900 students had fled to set up shop in 50 tents on a hillside above Pusan...
Irked by this state of affairs, the Swiss and Swedes privately suggested dissolution of the inspection commission. At last the U.N. command agreed. Early one morning last week, 16 neutral inspection members stationed in South Korea's three main ports of entry-Kunsan, Inchon and Pusan-were told to pack up their belongings. Without incident, two transport planes and 18 helicopters flew them to the demilitarized zone at Panmunjom. The U.N. will continue to report South Korean military imports to the commission, but jubilant South Koreans, who regard the Czech and Polish inspectors as spies, were happy...
...supplied his rickety rail system with 45 locomotives, 1,696 pieces of rolling stock, enough rails, switches and crossties for 1,811 miles of track. The U.N. has also built 2,138 miles of Korean highway, 525 bridges. Though Rhee asks $38.6 million for electricity, U.N. generating barges at Pusan and Inchon pump unmetered quantities of electricity into Korean homes and factories, at least double the army's consumption...