Word: frayed
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THIS year TIME correspondents ' once again are learning firsthand the physical and journalistic perils involved in covering war, insurgencies or riots-whether they be in Indochina, the Middle East or on a U.S. college campus. Last week showed that being on the scene of the fray can be as frustrating an experience as not being able to get there...
Suburban Victory. The man who beat Mrs. Hicks in her mayoral race, Kevin White, lost his own city last week, but carried the suburbs and won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. White was in a four-way fray with State Senate President Maurice Donahue, former Lieutenant Governor Francis Bellotti and Kenneth O'Donnell, one of John Kennedy's closest political aides. O'Donnell ran a poor fourth, thereby holding to the losing pattern among former J.F.K. associates who run for office. White faces an uphill fight against incumbent Republican Francis Sargent...
Meanwhile, Fairchild has plenty to occupy him in just churning out Women's Wear and battling for the midi. Field headquarters for the fray is Fairchild Publishing's grubby third-floor editorial room, a noisy, bare-floored relic straight out of Front Page, where editors shout and ink-stained copy boys scurry. A few feet away from Fairchild's scarred, wooden desk sits Publisher Brady, who starts the day at WWD by calling the top editors together for a brutal analysis of that morning's issue. "That sketch on Page One today is grotesque," he snapped at a recent session...
...event, what did happen was that the group pushing for a fray met the unexpected resistance of many people on the Common. The light blue leaflet that circulated on Saturday attacking the idea of a riot was a convincing statement for many that the people intent upon a street battle worked against revolutionary purposes...
...Vietnamese Communist forces in Cambodia were reinforced by relatively small numbers of Cambodian Communist troops (the Khmer Rouge) and reportedly by some units of Pathet Lao, a native Communist force in Laos. There were even rumors, discounted by most Western experts, that some Chinese Communist soldiers had joined the fray...