Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fleeting that the enemy still did not realize the Sabre jets' presence . . . On the most crucial point at stake, TIME garbles my testimony by reporting: "Talbert argued that security was violated when [the New York Times' Correspondent Charles] Grutzner put the story on commercial wires out of Seoul, i.e., they were thought to be tapped." There weren't any commercial wires. What I swore was that Mr. Grutzner sent his story by commercial wireless to the U.S. in uncoded English and that this was the equivalent of broadcasting it to the enemy...
...Grutzner sent his Sabre jet story on for clearance by Washington and the Times printed it, after Air, Force Chief Hoyt Vandenberg gave his O.K. Talbert argued that security was violated when Grutzner put the story on commercial wires out of Seoul, i.e., they were thought to be tapped. Talbert quoted General George Stratemeyer as calling Grutzner's story "one of the greatest security breaches...
They flew the 30,000 miles mostly aboard Military Air Transport Service and Air Force planes. Unpressurized cabins brought ear trouble. There was a running gag of one violinist asking his neighbor, "How did I play tonight? I couldn't hear myself." One flight, between Tokyo and Seoul, ran into a storm so Wagnerian that everyone but Director Don Gillis became violently ill. Gillis. with an oxygen tank but no mask, dashed up and down the plane spraying groaning musicians in the face with oxygen. "It may or may not have helped," he says...
...morning last fortnight, 104 of the unmarried monks and 109 of the nuns shuffled into Seoul's Choke Temple to start a hunger strike. Rubbing their prayer beads, softly chanting their sutras. they waited. As night fell, the celibates retired to sleep-all but Sentry Kim Chi Yo, who took up his post at the temple's weathered wooden gates. There was a delegation of married monks in town to protest the government's decree, and rumor had it that the married monks might be looking for trouble...
...Seoul, Okinawa, Formosa, Hong Kong and the Philippines were still unknown quantities, but eight other Japanese cities were already showing signs of matching Tokyo's enthusiasm. As one Tokyo critic explained it: "My eyes were blurred with tears of my deep feeling. We have been waiting these many years just for this night." Said another enthusiast: "I feel as if I had eaten a big beefsteak of music...