Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8-11:10 p.m.). For the occasional viewer who may have missed it first time around on TV (some 71 million tuned in), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), starring Alec Guinness, William Holden and Jack Hawkins...
...elevator No. 13 for twelve minutes. Once outside, they learned that a chilling rain had forced the cancellation of an Air Force and Navy flyover. After four 105-mm. howitzers boomed out a 19-gun salute, Johnson told an audience of 1,000 before the columned Potomac River entrance to the Pentagon: "I have heard this place here referred to as the 'puzzle palace.' Bob McNamara may be the only man who ever found the solution to the puzzle, and he is taking it with him." His words were lost; the public-address system had broken down...
...extra jobs in order to make ends meet, he now is able to hold only one job-if he is lucky enough to still have one. Because of the curtailment of working hours, there is far less economic activity. Some 20 freighters, for example, are lined up in the river waiting to be unloaded. The lack of these imports means fewer jobs, smaller pay packets. Partly because of the slowdown, hundreds of small businessmen have gone broke. As a result, the Saigonese have less money to spend at a time when they need it most just to keep alive...
...turn the resentment of the Saigonese against the government and the Americans, charging them with the destruction of the city after the V.C. invasion. Meanwhile, V.C. assassination squads operate in broad daylight. The results of their handiwork turn up-hands bound and bodies mutilated-in the river. The V.C. have been active in Saigon for years but, in a city under siege, their presence is more unnerving than ever...
...public esteem after a century of obscurity. American 19th century painting, from the works of such frontier reporters as George Caleb Bingham, whose pictures today bring as high as $250,000, to the early 20th century cityscapes of the Ashcan School, is enjoying a remarkable revival. A Hudson River landscape by Frederick Church that sold for $3,500 in the 1950s went last year for $40,000; a canvas by Thomas Eakins or Winslow Homer can bring...