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...Times has tried for years to get a reporter into Hanoi. But Ho Chi Minh has consistently said no. Last week the Times finally ran a five-part series on life in North Viet Nam, but not by one of its own reporters. It was the work of James Cameron, 54, a British freelancer who was writing for the London Evening Standard. "Failing our being able to get a man inside," says Times Foreign News Editor Sydney Gruson, "this was the next best thing...
...tireless, didactic liberal of the ban-the-bomb breed, Cameron worked on Fleet Street papers before he broke loose on his own. He prides himself on getting into areas forbidden to other newsmen, and he wangled permission to visit North Viet Nam for a month this fall. His report is a rare eyewitness account by a Western journalist, but it leaves little doubt of Cameron's own emotional commitment: he firmly believes the U.S. has no business whatsoever in Viet...
...Senator, do you think the Republican Party will stage a comeback in 1968?" The question came from Veteran News Commentator John Cameron Swayze, and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen fielded it suavely: "I know no reason why it should...
Doing the Mekes. Producer of the tattoo* is retired Brigadier Alasdair MacLean of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, who still wears his tartan trews and Glengarry cap, clings to his silver-topped swagger stick ("I'm sort of superstitious about the damned thing"). As reinforcements for his North American campaign, MacLean has added 18 feather-footed British Columbia Highland Lassies (all daughters of Canadian servicemen) and for Manhattan, 57 Fiji islanders, representing more than one-third of the crown colony's present army. Mostly muscular six-footers as tall as their names (like Lance Corporal...
...handle the going." Armbro Flight won one heat, Egyptian Candor won another, and an outsider named Short Stop won the third. The Hambletonian goes to the first horse that wins two heats. So the race went into overtime-a trot-off among the three heat winners. Before the final, Cameron offered Dancer the seat in Egyptian Candor's sulky. Stanley refused, and Cameron went on to win by a head in 2 min. 10.2 sec.-second slowest time in Hambletonian history. "The best horse didn't win," Cameron said later. "Noble Victory was the best horse...