Word: seoul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MaCoy's aversion to boredom was quickly sensed by fellow correspondents in Korea. Week after week, he kept moving to different sections of the front, looking for the most active sector. For a story on a front-line neurosurgery team, he made the round trip from Seoul to Tokyo twice in one week, hitchhiking in military planes, in order to catch up with the unit's commanding officer and to interview the theater surgeon general...
...dusty road north of Seoul last week, a U.N. tank commander leaned against the tread of his bulky Patton and read an order to his men: "During the remainder of the armistice negotiations, every effort will be made to avoid casualties and to demonstrate our willingness to honor a cease-fire." The lieutenant went on with specifications: no more combat patrols, artillery to be used only for counterbattery fire, the infantry to fight only to repel an attack. When he had finished, a sergeant asked: "What does this mean, lieutenant?" Answered the officer: "It means just what it says...
Rate of Exchange. Near Seoul, Korea, the U.S. Army's 568th Ordnance Co. decided to cancel a $580 contract with the Sam Whan construction firm to repair its boiler, because its own Korean carpenter had already done...
...Gloucesters had fought some tough battles in Korea. In February they stormed and took a hill near Seoul with such gallantry that it was renamed Gloucestershire Hill. In April at the Imjin River, thousands of Chinese drove through their positions, killing 33, wounding 34, and capturing 407, including the commanding officer, Lieut. Colonel James P. Carne. On board the Empire Fowey, there were only 15 survivors of that battle. By special permission of the King, the Gloucesters wore the blue and gold emblem of the U.S. Distinguished Unit Citation, but few of them had decorations for individual exploits. Explained...
...Seoul, Mayor Kim Tai Sun presented Eighth Army Commander General James A. Van Fleet with a scroll, an eight-inch silver key, a bouquet of roses and pronounced him honorary mayor of the city on its 558th anniversary as capital of Korea. A few days later, Mayor Sun was out of office. The R.O.K. government inspection committee dismissed him for embezzling several hundred million won of government funds...