Word: regiment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paik Sun Yup, the division commander, reached out his hand and gave me a gold-toothed "How do you do?" in English. At 30, Colonel Paik is rated the best field commander of the Korean army. His younger brother, 27-year-old Paik In Yup, commander of the iyth Regiment, was wounded in fighting farther north after successfully leading his regiment out of the precarious pocket. The two Paik boys' are a shining contrast to the inefficient, sluggish South Korean commanders who bungled the early days of fighting in the west. As the pressure grows, they and others like...
Conspirator (M-G-M). The Sally Benson script, based on the Humphrey Slater novel, is more a study of stupidity than treason. Robert Taylor, a wooden-faced major in a British Guards regiment, has been a Red agent since he was 15, apparently because he enjoyed his conspiratorial adolescence in Ireland. He breaks party discipline by marrying Elizabeth Taylor, an American visitor to London, who is portrayed as vain, vapid and addicted to double-takes. Since even his addlepated wife soon catches on that he is a traitor, the party orders Robert to kill her. On a duck hunt...
...divisions, one on the East Coast, one on the West; the 2nd Army Division, widely deployed over the U.S. and wholly unready; and five divisions on occupation duty (four in Japan and one in Germany) which could not be counted as available. One armored "command" (the equivalent of a regiment) is ready. The U.S.'s other troops are 27 National Guard divisions, but the best that could be hoped of them is that most could be made ready by a year from the outbreak...
...troop-carrier and cargo planes that would be available if the U.S. were attacked this week. Nevertheless, the Air Force's able, 43-year-old Lieut. General Lauris ("Larry") Norstad, in command, has had to tailor his plans to his restricted fleet of aircraft, dropping one regiment at a time on the North Carolina countryside...
...room, commiserated with the war criminals and their visiting relatives. To newsmen he said: "Why have the Allies let big people go, and let the innocent ones who can't afford lawyers stay in jail? These people had to do as they were told. One man from my regiment is here for killing an Allied prisoner of war. I remember him as an 18-year-old illiterate. Why should he be imprisoned? Why should I have freedom that he doesn't enjoy? He should be free to see his family and have babies. Allies are indifferent to their...