Word: fans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon General Maxwell Taylor was quick to warn, "any change in U.S. strategy or in the command structure"-meaning that the U.S. was still not taking over direct command in the war or changing the rules. Like those who preceded them, the bulk of the new men will fan out into the most harassed provinces, not to command but to teach, cajole, curse, exhort, and occasionally inspire Vietnamese soldiers half their size, in what must be history's first war fought by on-the-job training...
Batters better swing high, wide and fan some when Fidel Castro, 37, steps up to the mound to give a demonstration of his celebrated pitching prowess. Since he won the revolution, he has not lost a game. But now it appears that Fidel's new soothing syrup is for domestic consumption as well as export. Radio Havana breathlessly reported that a recent beisbol game ended 3-0 after five innings with el máxima lider the losing hurler, though naturally he was "in magnificent form." Why five innings? Well, when Castro walks off the field, it seems that...
...Fan-Club Fidelity. These were not isolated examples of a U.S. newspaper tendency to treat television news coverage as if the coverage itself were news. Jack Gould, the New York Times's TV critic, systematically lumps TV newscasts in with Dr. Kildare, and gives both the same sort of critical going-over. After last month's conference of state governors in Cleveland, Plain Dealer TV Columnist Bert...
...appearances and disappearances of TV newscasters are logged by the press with a fan-club fidelity usually reserved for grease paint performers-which perhaps they are. Thus when NBC, eying San Francisco, decided to backstop its top news team of Chet Huntley and Dave Brinkley with another duo, the New York Times duly recorded their names: Ray Scherer and Nancy Dickerson. And when Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. signed Novelist-Playwright Gore Vidal to report both the Republican and Democratic national conventions, the Times gave Vidal's assignment headline prominence-meanwhile leaving unmentioned the names of several dozen experienced Timesmen...
Judy Collins is a "folk singer" par excellence, but Jack Elliott is "real folk," and the contrast provided as exciting a concert as as folk music fan could hope...