Word: turncoat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Belgian turncoat prisoner of war in Korea, who has just left China "politically disillusioned...
Collecting Coupons. If Lei Feng represents the mythical young Chinese, what is the reality like? One answer came last week from a U.S. turncoat, Belgian-born Albert Belhomme, a former G.I. who had defected to China after the Korean War. After ten years in China, Belhomme and two other U.S. defectors, Lowell Skinner and Scott Rush, became disillusioned and were allowed to leave the country...
...race, Vice President Lyndon Johnson seemed to be the main issue. Republican Jack Cox contended that Democrat John Connally is so close to L.B.J. that Connally would be a "puppet Governor." Connally charged that the Cox campaign is "conceived in hypocrisy, nurtured by hate," and that Cox is a "turncoat," since he once endorsed Johnson for President at a Democratic rally. Cox took this as a dastardly accusation and cried: "John Connally couldn't buy his way into office, now he is trying to blast in with smear tactics...
...Essential." The man who has lately done most to demilitarize Culver is its sixth superintendent, retired Air Force Major General Delmar T. Spivey, 56, a West Pointer ('28), World War II bomber pilot, and onetime head of the Air University's War College. Shocked at the turncoat performance of some U.S. prisoners in Korea, Spivey turned down fat offers from industry, decided to devote himself to educating youngsters "in the real meaning of citizenship...
Time, of course, will be the arbiter. But if the turncoat fits, we hope Mr. Johnson will continue to wear it; with which, we welcome him again to Washington...