Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three Stages. The pacification plan calls for three stages. First, U.S. troops will seek and smash Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces in selected areas. Next, the South Vietnamese army will move in and mop up what is left of the enemy. At that point, exit the army and enter the region's own police force and popular forces, ready to defend themselves. A key to making this phase work will be the white-uniformed national police force ("the white mice") under Colonel Pham Van Lieu, who are already showing promise of developing into an effective countrywide law-enforcement...
...programs of every other variety for grownups. Now all that is changed. Television has brought the comics to adults. It comes in the form of Batman, a new twice-a-week hyperthyroid series on ABC. Produced with an enormous amount of pulp and circumstance, it has become an overnight smash...
...film, the Brattle lifted "The Batman" out of a celluloid cemetery. Shortly thereafter, someone in film-land (who undoubtedly had read the Time article about camp) spliced this 1943 serial into a four-hour-and-eight-minute feature. Needless to say, the show was a smash in a number of midwestern college towns. Hence, it was with a sizable dollop of trepidation that we sat down Wednesday evening to watch the first episode of "Batman," TV's predictable next step...
ENGLAND SWINGS (Smash). Roger Miller (Dang Me, Do-Wacka-Do, You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd) can pull a hit out of a hat. He recommends taking the family to England, because England swings, what with Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and "bobbies on bicycles...
...Watts uprising last August, a handful of Negro demagogues helped to prolong and aggravate the violence. On the hot summer night when New York's black ghetto boiled over, a disgruntled Communist named William Epton incited a street-corner crowd: "We will not be fully free until we smash this state completely and totally." Later, Epton cried: "In that process, we're going to have to kill a lot of these cops, a lot of these judges, and we'll have to go up against their army...