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This documentary-like introduction goes on for several minutes, and then there is a delicate but crucial shift of focus that signals a complete change in the film's perspective. Coutard's camera is following an American jeep traveling down a Saigon street; suddenly, through an adjustment of the camera lens, the jeep is gone, and attention is fixed on a Vietnamese bicyclist. From that moment the film has stepped inside the Vietnam War. The frame of reference is wenched from the Americans and returned to the Vietnamese...
Minutes after the group had gathered, rocks ripped through the church windows and fire bombs exploded eight motorcycles and a Jeep. McGovern and his aides took cover in the church office, but it required three frantic calls to the U.S. embassy, one of them to Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, before American MPs rescued the Senator...
...ball game. Rube Waddell and the boys in fact would choke on their chaws of tobacco if they could see some of the carryings-on at the ballparks these days. Just 16 years ago, the Cleveland Indians were mocked for shuttling relief pitchers around in a Jeep. Today the Baltimore club not only has a golf cart in the shape of a huge Oriole cap but a pretty, broom-wielding girl to dust off the infielders' spikes. While Cleveland President Veeck was once considered crass for handing out free nylons to lady customers, there is now a Cash Scramble...
...violent expressions." But her description of what happened to Pound when the war ended is detailed and grim. He was arrested by two small-time crooks who had learned that there was a 500,000-lira reward for his capture. Handcuffed to an accused murderer, he was taken by Jeep to a military jail near Pisa. There, at the age of 60, he was kept like an animal in an outdoor cage, exposed to all weathers, for more than six months. He was sent to St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum in Washington, D.C. During his ordeal, Pound fought...
...Seoul, his first official stop, Spiro Agnew firmly planted his foot on the platform of his slow-moving, flag-emblazoned Jeep, and hung on tight. The determination was unmistakable and prophetic. On this, his third official trip abroad, the Vice President was clearly determined to resist his well-known proclivity for putting his foot in his mouth. The result has been a mission free of serious or even amusing gaffes like the Philippines miscue in 1969, when Agnew nearly sat on President Marcos...