Word: plane
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Said one disillusioned Administration adviser: "Johnson tries to play politics with the same brand of secrecy he uses in not telling anyone where he's going until the plane has taken off. He has a distaste for national politics born of a lack of confidence that he knows how to play the game...
...Viet Nam and twice chosen for Viet Nam touch downs by Lyndon Johnson. The North Vietnamese also kept up their artillery pressure on the Marine garrison at Khe Sanh. One shell hit a troop-carrying C-123 circling to land; all 49 on board were killed when the plane crashed and burned in Communist-held territory...
...Danang, then equal time in Saigon - no longer affords a man any rest. Says NBC's New York-based News Operations Head Bill Corrigan: "There's nowhere to hide any more. There are no soft assignments." A newsman is in action from the moment his plane touches down at Tan Son Nhut Airport...
...filtering in through the windows creates a perfect effect. Widerberg seems more interested when he gets inside. The scene in the first hotel room is shot with a huge lens, making an unusual and effective flattening out--with Elvira, Sparre, the lamp, and the bed all in the same plane. The restaurant sequence, with Miss Degermark's face glowing gold from the slanting sunlight, is another fine piece of work...
...country for "interference" in Haitian politics. A force of Haitian exiles, supported and armed by the new president of the Dominican Republic, Juan Bosch, stood poised on the border. Invasion forces were thought to be arming in Cuba, and a story circulated that Duvalier had reservations on a plane to Paris and was ready to flee the country...