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...know anyone in the industry who hasn't been embarrassed from time to time by the disgraceful and frenzied interviews of public figures that are put on the air. Hordes of radio and television reporters, augmented by photographers and reporters of the newspapers, literally swamp the person being interviewed. Hand-carried microphones are thrust into his face from all directions; he is often half-blinded by the television lights; questions are shouted at him simultaneously from two or three reporters. All too often everybody gets the same treatment-be he a high-ranking Government official, a visiting foreign dignitary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadcasting: Electronic Hodgepodge | 3/12/1965 | See Source »

...wind up in the swamp...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Atlanta Conference | 2/27/1965 | See Source »

ONCE UPON A MATTRESS (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). In this musical-comedy adaptation of The Princess and the Pea, Carol Burnett re-creates her off-Broadway role as a swamp girl who swims the castle moat and is courted by a prince. Richard Rodgers' daughter Mary composed the score...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Theater, Records, Cinema, Books: Nov. 13, 1964 | 11/13/1964 | See Source »

Kennedy has run a far more respectable campaign than his brother Edward ran in Massachusetts two years ago to swamp George Cabot Lodge. Robert Kennedy won't overwhelm Kenneth Keating, but he will probably join his younger brother's club this January

Author: By Richard Cotton, | Title: A Subdued RFK Plays to Huge Crowds | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...moldy bags and barbed wire, a Jeep arrives containing one dead soldier and five live ones, who almost casually share the vehicle with the corpse. On a canal bank in Chuong Thien province, the body of a Communist guerrilla sprawls among the water lilies. On a track through a swamp in Hau Nghia province, a young Vietnamese rifleman happily plucks a duck for supper, white feathers sticking to his mud-spattered battle dress. At an isolated Special Forces post near the Laotian frontier, a supply helicopter arrives carrying, in a sling under its belly, two bewildered cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Toward the Showdown? | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

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