Word: net
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fast-skating third line collaborated for the second tally two minutes later. Ware took a pass from Jack Turco at full speed and rifled a flying forehand from the faceoff circle, off Cohen and into the net...
...NET JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "No Harvest for the Reaper" graphically documents the exploitation of migrant workers on Long Island potato farms...
Lyndon Johnson met these vagaries headon, but the outcome of the collision cannot be known for months. He proposed for the year beginning July 1, $186.1 billion in "outlays"-a term covering expenditures and net lending under the new budget format-but this and other projections rested on expectations of a degree of cooperation from Congress that will most probably be withheld and of only a modest rise in Viet Nam expenses, which are really impossible to predict...
When they heard that the National Educational Television channels were going to run a 49-minute excerpt of a documentary filmed in North Viet Nam, 33 U.S. Congressmen signed a letter accusing NET of "acting as a conduit of enemy propaganda." It was precipitate on two counts: 1) they had not seen the film, and 2) if they had, they would lave realized that there was no cause for alarm. Northth Viet Nam: A Personal Report, filmed by British Journalist Felix Greene, was so transparently tailored that only a twelve-year-old would buy its presumed authenticity...
...provide perspective, which in this case was superfluous, NET staged a 60-minute debate between two differing Asia hands from academe. The discussion was urbane and informed but not particularly illuminating. Former CBS Correspondent David Schoenbrun, now a professor of Vietnamese history at Columbia University, conceded that Greene's "emphasis on civilian targets gave a false impression," but called the film "a useful counterpoint to our own propaganda." Robert Scalapino, who teaches political science at Berkeley, observed that the documentary "did not mention the word 'Communism' once," and summed up that it "presented North Viet...