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Some actors were so prominent in the Viet Nam tragedy that they became permanently identified with their roles: Robert McNamara was the whiz-kid president of Ford Motor Co. beforehand and head of the World Bank afterward, but he is still remembered as the Secretary of Defense who calibrated America's growing involvement. Others were caught in the national spotlight for an awkward instant and have been trying to live it down ever since. Mary Ann Vecchio was a 14-year-old runaway from Florida captured by a photographer as she knelt in anguish over a dead student...
Davis himself was a "great tea-toast-and-honey man" as a high-school quarter-miler, he says, and rarely competed without eating the meal beforehand...
...known drug trafficker." DEA agents say he was suspected of illegal arms dealing, but they do not believe he was in the narcotics trade. Moreover, the federales, who had recently been making a deliberate effort to cooperate with U.S. investigators, did not tell the DEA of the Bravo raid beforehand. Nor were Michoacan state police notified of the raid in their jurisdiction until after the shooting started; when the local officers arrived at the scene, the federal police even prevented them from entering the ranch grounds...
...proof that public officials would have to meet as plaintiffs: they would have to prove "actual malice" on the part of the journalist. That meant something far more sweeping than political opposition or personal ill will; malice was defined as, at minimum, publishing a story despite having substantial doubt beforehand that it was true. At the time, this distinction was considered effective immunity for any responsible news organization. The actual malice standard, it appeared, simply left the door open a crack for suits by public officials against scandal sheets or the willful lies of opponents. Even so, Justices Hugo Black...
Indeed few would have guessed beforehand that the Crimson would suffer such a turnaround in one weekend...