Word: revisitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Snow once more made history. As the first American journalist since the 1949 Revolution to revisit China with the permission of both the U.S. State Department and the Chinese government, he again enjoyed a monopoly of first hand information. Judging by the tone of his book, Snow seemed to hope that his trip would reopen Sino-American channels of communication...
...autobiography. Victory Over Myself, was completed, and World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, 27, felt a sudden urge to revisit the locale of one of his early chapters. Dragging along a passel of pals, the dusky boxer hustled them aboard a rush-hour "A" train to a subway station beneath Brooklyn's High Street station. Floyd scooted up a ladder to the dark cranny where 17 years ago. as a shy and unhappy ragamuffin, he spent his hours as a chronic hooky player from school. "Just like I remember it," said Floyd. "Crazy, man," said a trainer. Someone else...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). The grapes of wrath are pressed again as Walter Cronkite & Co. revisit The Dust Bowl, interviewing farmers who stayed with the land and are still there...
...Stops. Long before the press corps actually got in to the courtroom to cover the trial, the Eichmann case was heralded, exploited, rehashed and explored with exhaustive thoroughness. In the U.S., papers that did not serialize Eichmann's life or revisit the Third Reich ranged far afield to fill space. Some went hunting for concentration camp survivors; the Denver Post interviewed 25-year-old Robert Kaye, who served when he was seven as Eichmann's orderly in a camp near Mannheim. Hearst's tabloid New York Mirror interviewed a bevy of teenagers in Queens, among them...
...like, could remain in the white zone-but without voting or civil rights. I think they would make out well just the same." On hand to introduce Sir Oswald at the neo-fascist rally was Expatriate Poet Ezra Pound, 75, who interrupted his own dreamworld sojourn in Rapallo to revisit the scene of his wartime, anti-U.S. radio broadsides...