Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Company Strikes. Some 5,000 to 8,000 men a month go down the network of trails to fight in South Viet Nam, though of late the traffic has largely been in supplies. To keep the roads open under the daily bombing, Hanoi employs a large assortment of heavy earth-moving equipment at night, plus the labor of some 40,000 coolies. An estimated 5,000 trucks ply the trail, but bicycles and even elephants are also used. Some 25,000 North Vietnamese troops are stationed in Laos to guard the vital Red flow southward. Where traffic is heaviest...
...east of Caracas, and started toward shore in two rafts. In the surf, one raft capsized, drowning one of the Cubans. Finding a deserted raft the next day, Venezuelan fishermen alerted the army, which hunted down the invaders before they could escape into the mountains. In a sharp fire fight, the Cuban commander of the contingent was killed, and two men were captured -the first uniformed Cuban army men that the Venezuelans have ever nabbed...
After talking the matter over with his reporters and New York Times Associate Editor James Reston, Bradlee laid down some guidelines: "First, we encourage every reporter to fight like hell to get it on the record. Second, he should insist that the absolute minimum he'll take is attribution to the Government agency involved. Third, he should say in the story why it is background news. Finally, the reporter is free, at his discretion, to get up and leave a background session...
...before she was considered ready; she has been on 18 times since. After the talent is selected, Tonight staffers rough out a crib sheet for Carson, proposing possible lines of questioning and the guest's likely answers. Carson rarely talks to the guests beforehand, lest "they leave their fight in the gymnasium...
...seems clear that these gestures by themselves will not still Southern zeal to quash the guidelines. If the Administration wants them kept, it will have to fight a determined battle. If desegregation is to proceed at all, it must do so. President Johnson has spoken out forcefully against the Republican block grant proposal; he should make it clear that he supports the guidelines, and he should do everything in his power to preserve them...