Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some 40 miles north of Seoul, the swift-flowing Imjin bangs its winter load of ice chunks against steep banks. Tucked into an S-curve of the river is a brown, double-crested ridge, much like the other nondescript brown lumps in the hill chain beyond. Between the two crests is a saddle, about 50 yards wide, not more than 300 yards long. One of the crests is called Little Nori; the other, 40 feet higher, Big Nori...
...have a feeling for this situation," said President-elect Dwight Eisenhower as he was leaving Korea last week. He had flown 10,836 miles to Seoul, spent three days appraising the Korean war with the world's most practiced inspecting eye. He talked face to face, piling question on question, with the top U.S. Army, Navy and Air Force commanders in the Pacific, with Korea's doughty President Rhee, with European allies, U.S. diplomats, young front-line officers and G.I.s. Then he went into retreat with his staff on the U.S.S. Helena in mid-Pacific to translate...
Brass in the Laundry. Just after 8 p.m. on Tuesday, the two Constellations put down on an icy runway at a little-used field outside Seoul. Only a bird colonel was on hand for the reception: G-2 had learned that 135 Communist agents had recently slipped into Seoul, feared that a reception by high brass might be a tipoff to Ike's arrival. Ike, bundled in an overcoat, climbed into a sedan and the convoy rolled quietly into Seoul through the windy, subfreezing (18°) night. When his car pulled up at Eighth Army headquarters, U.N. Commander Mark...
...Rhee "shows every qualification of a great leader"). But on Ike's last crowded afternoon, Rhee's agents buzzed around headquarters insisting that Rhee would lose face if Ike did not pay a return call on the presidential mansion. The Secret Service was against going about in Seoul, but finally Ike gave in, and changed his schedule. Back in his rooms within an hour, he packed up, left a $20 tip for Suzy, Van Fleet's Korean maid (who said later that she still thinks Cardinal Spellman the nicest American), and said goodbye all around...
...spent a quiet weekend back in Manhattan, picked up a heavy callers' schedule again early this week. Meanwhile, all signs indicated that he would soon disappear behind the security curtain for his trip to Korea. In Seoul, the Korean government erected welcoming banners, archways and Ike portraits. U.N. Commander Mark Clark flew to Korea from Tokyo to take charge of Ike's protection, and put Seoul through a practice blackout. Back home, Ike Classmate Omar Bradley assured a television audience that Ike would go close enough to the Korean front "to talk to division commanders, lower commanders...