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Logistics Nightmare. The locale for the exercise, aptly named "Acid Test," was south of the Tanana River near Fairbanks, in one of Alaska's coldest spots, where - 80° F. has been registered. With temperatures of 60 below at some locations, the war games strained men and machines to new limits as officers tested new doctrines for winter warfare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: The Coldest War | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...Acid Test's deep freeze was a special nightmare for supply officers. Gasoline, for transport and collapsible Yukon stoves, had first priority, far ahead of ammunition. Next came rations: each infantryman must tuck in a formidable 5,000 calories of food a day to replace heat lost by his body. Water was another life-or-death commodity. Ski troopers in the desertlike dry cold require between three and five quarts of water daily. While equipment designers have achieved some success in producing insulated canteens and tanks to transport water into the field, the delay caused by a flat tire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: The Coldest War | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Then, under a deluge of rocks, Molotov cocktails, bottles of sulphuric acid and lengths of pipe, the police closed in on mock-Gothic Yasuda Hall, the main building on the campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: The Battle of Tokyo U. | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

Rhetorical Blight. Conservative William F. Buckley, who likes Nixon but loves style, delivered a toast in acid. To him, "the striking passages of his address had to do with the human spirit. These passages he could speak feelingly because he is the primary American exemplar of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity. The astronauts never had such dark and lonely moments as Nixon had, and out of that experience he fashioned a philosophy which is essentially hopeful." Still, he found banal passages: "We are going to turn our swords into plowshares yes yes yes." Buckley also detected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opinion: Lower Your Voice | 1/31/1969 | See Source »

Dependent Generals. Ribonucleic and deoxyribonucleic acid are the fundamental chemicals that determine the nature of living things-whether they will grow normally or abnormally, whether they will reproduce their kind or perish. The two nucleic acids are as dependent on their loyal enzymes as a general on his junior officers. The bovine ribonuclease that has been synthesized will have no immediate value as a treatment for any of the ills of animals or man. But its synthesis shows that man is coming closer to his goal of emulating nature at the most basic, biochemical level...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biochemistry: Synthesis of an Enzyme | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

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