Word: flew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Striking back at his critics, Johnson set out to convince a skeptical public that his Viet Nam policy was beginning to show dramatic progress. His top echelon in Saigon, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, General William Westmoreland and Pacification Chief Robert Komer, flew into Washington for a minisummit. All three brimmed with confidence-or, as Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Russell put it after Westmoreland had addressed Russell's Armed Services Committee behind closed doors, "cautious optimism" (see following story). Said one aide, mindful that the latest Louis Harris Poll* shows Johnson's rating on his handling...
...well understood and appreciated by the governments and peoples of the Asian countries." Sato warmed Johnson's heart further when he pronounced himself "keenly aware that the position of a leader is often a lonely one filled with tribulations." Himself besieged by leftist anti-government rioters before he flew to the U.S., Sato commented dryly on dissent in America. "It has been suggested that perhaps we should institute an exchange program for demonstrators," he remarked with a crooked smile on his Kabuki-actor's face. "From what I have seen, I would not like...
Zieff and his staff spent several weeks producing a commercial that will appear next month for Volkswagen. After an assistant toured Europe for two weeks scouting shooting sites, Zieff flew to Paris, loaded cast, cameras, costumes, props and his 36-man crew into five trucks and a bus and went on location at the Marksburg Castle near Koblenz, Germany. The scene, which required three days of near round-the-clock filming, shows an angry mob of villagers storming the castle, battering down the doors, and chasing a mad scientist and seven assorted monsters who hurriedly gather their gear and escape...
...cobras, on the fierce 25-ft.-high demons who guard the temple, on the white monkey king warrior and the life-size golden statue of Manohra, half human and half bird. Entranced by her walk, Jackie called the temple "the most beautiful thing I have ever seen." Then she flew off for a brief stopover in Rome before returning...
...VILLAGE OF BEN SUC by Jonathan Schell (Knopf, $3.95), a 24-year-old Harvard graduate student, unreels an unemotional chronicle of how Americans evicted Ben Sue's 3,500 peasants at gunpoint last January and demolished their homes in an effort to clear the area of guerrillas. He flew in with the G.I.s to Ben Sue, on the edge of the Viet Cong's Iron Triangle stronghold 30 miles northwest of Saigon; then he followed the uprooted villagers to a bleak camp behind barbed wire. He paints a picture of unremitting misery inspired by wanton cruelty...