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Reflecting Runway. A reflecting paint for airport runways and taxi strips that makes them brightly visible at night is being sold by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. The mixture, called Scotch-Rok, reflects a plane's landing lights two miles away...
...North Korea officially (which it has always refused to do) by entering into direct negotiations for the missing DC-3. As huge mobs of outraged Seoul citizens yelled for action, the answer came from explosive South Korean President Syngman Rhee: "No!" By early this week. Rhee had ordered 50.000 ROK soldiers on massive maneuvers. There was no word on the fate of the plane's passengers...
...hand. The hero (Rock Hudson) is Colonel Dean Hess, an Ohio parson (Disciples of Christ) who in real life flew 62 missions as a fighter pilot in World War II, then rejoined the Air Force when the Korean war broke out, and was ticketed to train the new-fledged ROK air force. The colonel found that his soldier's duty still left him enough time to satisfy his Christian conscience-by founding a home for war orphans and setting up an airlift that carried about a thousand of them...
...rage. In a bitter telegram to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, it said that some 40 U.S. businessmen have been denied exit visas, and are "held as individual hostages" by the South Korean government until heavy new corporate taxes are paid. Some companies "have been notified of ROK intent to seal offices and impound assets" if they fail to pay "exorbitant sums labeled tax, but not implied by Korean tax laws...
...Korean general named Kang Moon Bang had an unexpected guest last week during a briefing session at ROK army HQ in Taegu: the top U.S. soldier in Korea, General Maxwell Taylor. As Kang Moon Bang talked on, a window at one side of the room slid open, and another unexpected guest popped into the room...