Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reassure the U.S. top brass, Pak named a U.S. favorite as new Premier in General Chang's place. He is retired Lieut. General "Tiger" Song Yo Chan, 43, who as army chief of staff in May, 1960, pressured old President Syngman Rhee into resigning without a blood bath, then held the rioting students at bay until the nation calmed down. Song retired soon thereafter, has been studying politics and economics at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Last month the junta generals called him back to South Korea to serve as the new regime's Defense Minister...
...Compared Khrushchev, who recently claimed that the Soviet Union would outproduce the U.S. by 1970, to "the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin" before the prey is caught. "This tiger," said Kennedy, in a punning reference to Washington's nickname for him, "has other ideas." Putting aside his campaign complaints that the U.S. could not afford a growth rate slower than Russia's, the President argued that if both countries' present rates are maintained (3½% for the U.S., 6% for the Soviet Union), then "Soviet...
...gradually the U.S. is beginning to beckon foreigners. Last week President Kennedy signed into law a bill establishing a U.S. Travel Service that will offer advice on places to visit, speed up entry and visa procedures. U.S. airlines are pushing for more low-fare package tours: the Flying Tiger Line offers a $99 round-trip excursion air fare between Europe and the U.S. for Europeans only...
...might be expected to create pandemic jaundice among adult viewers, since it concerns the efforts of teen-aged twins to kid their divorced parents into remarrying. Surprisingly, the film is delightful-mostly because of 15-year-old Hayley Mills, the blonde button nose who played the endearing delinquent in Tiger...
...Having a tiger by the tail" is the way James Joseph Ling, 38, president of Dallas' Ling-Temco Electronics, Inc., describes his business operations; if he lets go, he may be eaten. Last week, giving the tiger's tail another yank, Jim Ling used his recently acquired majority interest in Dallas' Chance Vought Corp. to merge the 44-year-old aircraft company with Ling-Temco over the protests of Chance Vought officers and other stockholders. The merger creates a Texas-based aircraft, missile and electronics complex with a backlog of $300 million in orders. Ling, who once...