Word: koreans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country picked its Vice President from the opposition, suggesting progress toward a two-party system. But after two attempts on his life, Vice President John M. Chang has stayed at home under heavy personal guard, consulting with his party's members behind barricaded walls. Though the North Korean Communists have kept building up their military strength, the South has been making something of an economic comeback with the help of about $300 million yearly in U.S. aid, but there is danger that the handout mentality is becoming endemic...
...jobs (traveling salesman, oilfield worker, the Merchant Marine), which he always quit "when I got bored." He drifted to Hollywood, where he helped his father lay carpets, modeled bathing suits for Jantzen, and returned to his home state to become the first Oklahoma draftee called into the Korean war. Four years later an old soda-jerk friend, Producer Paul Gregory, gave Garner a job cueing Lloyd Nolan in the touring company of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, and he eventually replaced the late John Hodiak in the show. "I didn't register beyond the sixth row," he admits...
Orphans' Airlift. For Bertha and Harry"Holt, as well as for the children, the hymn has a special meaning. Two and a half years ago Harry Holt flew to Korea, hunted through orphanages, disease-ridden huts and gutters, rounded up Korean babies fathered by American G.I.s and abandoned by their mothers, and took them home. Pushing a special law through Congress permitting them to adopt all eight children (U.S. law permits families to adopt only two), the Holts, with the help of their own six youngsters (now aged 11 to 24), set out to rear the Koreans as their...
...retired lumberman, prosperous farmer (income: $20,000 a year) and devout member of the Willamette Gospel Church, Harry Holt began his crusade after he saw a documentary film that showed the plight of U.S.-Korean babies, many of whom were left by their mothers to die. Others, he learned, were ostracized by other Korean children. "Harry," says Bertha Holt, "could never forget those tiny outstretched arms. Finally, he realized that the Lord was speaking to him to do something for these children...
...private investigation agency to conduct the home study to be sure the applicants can take care of the youngsters, and that they are churchgoing Protestants (they refer Roman Catholic and Jewish requests to other agencies). Biggest difficulty: most Negro families want girls, but there are not enough Negro-Korean baby girls to go around...