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...with the speeches over, here they are, clustered around a piano in the Marriott Key Bridge Hotel, singing. Except for the gray in the hair, and a sagging of chests toward the belt line, the scene suggests (as it is meant to) a press billet in the city of Taegu, say, three decades ago when the United Nations forces were trying to hold the Pusan perimeter...
...first station is being built at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Others will be located near Taegu, South Korea, on the Hawaiian island of Maui, and at sites in the Indian Ocean and the Eastern Atlantic regions. Known as GEODSS (for ground-based electro-optical deep space surveillance), the system will provide almost live-action portraits of distant satellites and permit virtually instantaneous identification of any mysterious intruders in the night...
Park was born into a poor peasant family in 1917 near the city of Taegu...
Today Korea seems ready for a genuine industrial takeoff. Factory chimneys and television aerials crowd the skylines of industrial areas like Suwon, Chonan, Taegu and Inchon. Mountains of West Virginia coal are piled up at Pohang on the southeast coast, where 10,000 employees are producing steel or building plants for what will be the world's largest integrated steelworks. Farther south at Ulsan, the rocky coastline is broken by the giant hulls of 230,000-ton supertankers taking shape at ultramodern yards. South Korea's G.N.P., $17.2 billion, is about the same as Greece...
Room at the Top. Prime targets for assault were the chastened army command and the caretaker government of Acting President Huh Chung. Outraged that Huh had arranged Hawaiian exile for fallen President Syngman Rhee (TIME, June 6), student mobs marched in Taegu and Seoul last week, chanting "Huh Chung, quit!" Answered Huh: "I could not refuse this unfortunate old man a passport. Besides, I thought his departure would help clear up rumors of counterrevolution...