Word: cam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.O.P.'s most talked about prospects for national office. Then, last July, his constituents learned that Hatfield had re fused for the second year running to support a motion endorsing the Administration's Viet Nam policy at the annual Governors' Conference. As the cam paign began, it was clear that he was the underdog in a campaign that no one had previously thought he could lose...
...reporter's scorn for danger as he tracked down his story. No Marine rifleman was more exposed to enemy fire than Safer and his crew as they lugged their bulky equipment to the outskirts of the hamlet called Cam Ne. The very sound of Safer's voice, excited yet sure, carried a message of urgency. "This is what the war in Viet Nam is all about," he intoned, as the camera panned over crying women and old men. In his careful solemnity there was an echo of CBS Hero Edward R. Mur row reporting World...
Perhaps the emotional phrases were only to be expected in an emotional situation. And the fact is that even if Safer had gone out of his way to try to explain or excuse the Marines at Cam Ne, his words would have had little effect. To try to put pictures of one village burning into proper context, to balance that one incident against all the other activity that makes up the war in Viet Nam, would be all but impossible. On TV news, pictures make their own frontpage context; it takes a skillful script indeed to give them an added...
...sweetest shock of the year. "The car ran beautifully." His luck had turned again-and so had his competitors'. Italy's Lorenzo Bandini, the early pacesetter, was forced out when his Ferrari developed engine trouble on the 34th lap. Champion Brabham took over - but a cam follower on his Brabham-Repco snapped on the 55th lap. Gunning his Lotus into the lead; Jimmy Clark stayed there the rest of the way, averaging a record 114.94 m.p.h. to win the 20th Grand Prix of his career and the biggest winner's purse -$20,000 - in the history...
...Phan Quang Dan, 48, another physician (he runs a clinic in Gia Dinh) and a favorite of Americans. Dan cam paigned for free trade unionism, free enterprise and a guaranteed minimum wage, urged meaningful land reform and an unrestrained legal opposition to any civilian government...