Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hail of Bullets. The V.C. commander then fired from close range at another wounded correspondent lying on the ground; by then, all but Palmos had been killed. When the V.C. lowered their guns, Palmos leaped to his feet and sprinted away. "There was tremendous surprise and anger on their faces. They started firing, but they weren't very good shots. They hit a sign, they hit a post, they hit my shirt, but they didn't hit me." He ducked into a line of refugees and managed to elude his pursuers...
...Viet Cong held the street," William Rademaekers, TIME bureau chief in Saigon, reported last week. "And in the shifting nature of the war, where one street is secure at 9 a.m. and V.C.-held at 10, they cannot be accused of naivete or recklessness. The fighting is inevitably close in, and the chances of getting caught in a crossfire are immeasurably greater. Street fighting is as new to most correspondents as it is to most of the soldiers. By now, most journalists can handle themselves fairly well in the field: they know when to duck, when to run, what...
Whether Ling can succeed in the close-knit steel industry-where other conglomerate kings like Norton Simon have failed-remains to be seen. LTV plans to stick to a well-tried tactic: as in earlier acquisitions, it will go along with the old management. The stock that LTV acquires will be put into a five-man voting trust until 1971, with present J. & L. officers having a controlling three-man vote among the trustees. But there will be plenty of dividends for LTV. Jones & Laughlin recently reported first-quarter earnings of $11,706,000 on sales of $277 million...
...Death," runs the old insurance man's gag, "is nature's way of telling you to slow down." The joke is the cinematic principle of this catatonic, corpse-cluttered western, which comes as close as a film can to a still picture...
Hating Father did not mean loving Mother. In fact, the Pritchetts were that human catastrophe, a close but unloving family. What they had instead of love was intensity. Thus Grandfather Pritchett, a minister, "looked like a sergeant major who did not drink." He beat his carpets and his sons with "a genial sadistic touch." Pritchett concludes that his own father was partly playing the pass-on-the-pain game. (Authors who have suffered Pritchett's critical thrashings may believe the same...