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...portable typewriter. He took it along when the correspondents were called to what might have been just another briefing at the U.S. embassy in Manila. Along with 44 other newsmen, Sidey was locked into a room, then whisked aboard a waiting bus for the surprise flight with Johnson to Cam Ranh Bay in South Viet Nam. No one was allowed to leave for supplies, and Sidey's typewriter was one of the few at hand. Saigon Bureau Chief Simmons Fentress scored a coup...
...flown to Manila to cover Premier Nguyen Cao Ky at the summit, and wangled permission to interview him on the return trip to Saigon. Not until the plane was in the air did Ky tell Fentress their real destination: Cam Ranh Bay. "We get there an hour ahead of President Johnson," grinned the Premier. Fentress-the only correspondent from the Saigon press corps present-had time to interview Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge and a Marine general before L.B.J. arrived...
...American units stationed all over the country. He listened to reports on Operation Irving from Air Cav officers in the central swamplands, watched A-4 Skyhawks being catapulted off the deck of the carrier Oriskany, paid brief visits to Danang, Cu Chi and the rapidly building military port of Cam Ranh Bay. But the highlight of his trip was the 3rd Marine Division's forward command post at Dong Ha, where he got an on-the-spot briefing of the northern battle lines. Included in the briefing: a helicopter flight over enemy positions...
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...