Word: sams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There were hints that B-52s-which last week hit Laotian targets for the first time since late February -mightsoon be in action over South Viet Nam once again. For the U.S., that would be an exceedingly risky tactic; in addition to troops and materiel, the Communists have moved SAM-2 missiles down the Ho Chi Minh Trail into territory they control...
Lady Bird Johnson was back in Washington, D.C., for the first time since her husband lay in state there three months ago. At the National Portrait Gallery, she unveiled a bronze bust of Sam Rayburn, the Speaker of the House for 17 years. "Lyndon always loved to think himself as "Lyndon one of the 'Speaker's think boys,' "she said. In Manhattan, Mrs. Johnson was greeted with a standing ovation by the audience of Irene, the same heavily sugared musical that got an enthusiastic minority review by Theatergoer Richard Nixon...
Truffaut displays his distinctive and exuberant virtuosity; the film is briskly and surely made. The actors are fine, especially Denner, as a notably intense exterminator, and Guy Marchand, as a sleazy vocalist called Sam Golden who sports an extensive wardrobe of Damon Runyon gangster duds. But Bernadette Lafont can never find quite the proper combination of artfulness and amorality as Camille. She has an easy, unforced, energetic sexuality, but her ruthlessness does not seem to suit her. She tries too hard to act it, perhaps because it was never fully there in the script, which is concerned more with gymnastics...
...Summer Game, Roger Angell celebrates a field that never was: the Interior Stadium. "Baseball in the mind . . . is a game of recollections, recapturing and visions . . . anyone can play this private game, extending it to extraordinary varieties and possibilities in his mind. Ruth bats against Sandy Koufax or Sam McDowell . . . Hubbell pitches to Ted Williams. Baseball, I must conclude, is intensely remembered because only baseball is so intensely watched...
...Sam Butler won his heat and went on to place fifth overall in the 440 hurdles. Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace won his long jump section, sailing 23 feet into the muddy pit, but sustained a slight leg injury that forced his withdrawal from the triple jump...