Word: tanks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...patriotic writer/director with a tin ear for dialogue but a sharp eye for combat detail. In 1950, he made America's first Korean War movie, The Steel Helmet, a popular cult film that was "Shot in 12 days. cost, $104,000. Locations: Griffith Park....a cardboard tank was painted, a pole slammed into its face for a gun....Twice the goddam cardboard tank fell on its face...
...patriotic writer/director with a tin ear for dialogue but a sharp eye for combat detail. In 1950, he made America's first Korean War movie, The Steel Helmet, a popular cult film that was "Shot in 12 days. cost, $104,000. Locations: Griffith Park....a cardboard tank was painted, a pole slammed into its face for a gun....Twice the goddam cardboard tank fell on its face...
...growth in the 1970s: a third of the nation's wealth was allowed to concentrate in the hands of 1% of its families. "The General is calling for a more even distribution of our pie," says Economist Kim Mahn Je, head of the Korea Development Institute, a think tank. "In the interest of solidifying internal stability, the General as President is likely to place a great emphasis on the welfare of Korea's workers...
Brown's original hesitations about the policy seem valid, for there is a fundamental ambivalence involved in counterforce. Explains Lawrence Korb, director of defense studies at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington: "The irony of this doctrine is that it could make war either more or less probable. The threshold may be easier to go over, but if you do, you may be able to put the genie back in the bottle. It is stoppable, but because it is, it also is more startable...
DIED. William J. Baroody, 64, the director from 1962 until 1978 of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, a respected conservative think tank; of a heart attack; in Alexandria, Va. He built the small, business-oriented lobbying firm into a credible counterpart of the liberal Brookings Institution, largely by attracting well-known scholars and political figures to its ranks...