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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven others survived. A few hours later, a chaplain arrived for a special Mass. "The smell of death was still in the air," Pablo recalls. "Spent shells were all around. And the blood had been rain-washed pink." Two days later, Pablo and Glaspie volunteered for another helicopter-infantry assault. "We ain't unlucky," Glaspie shrugged. "This is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: We Want You | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...Assault on a Queen, written with a waterproof pen by Rod Serling, describes how a daredevil gang headed by Frank Sinatra, Tony Franciosa and Virna Lisi salvages a sunken German U-boat and uses it to stage a high-seas holdup of the Queen Mary. Despite the acknowledged cooperation of Cunard lines and the U.S. Coast Guard, most of the action appears to take place in a studio tank. When they are not scraping off barnacles or scrapping about sex, the actors group themselves in front of sea-blue projections and admit quite openly that their plan is insane, although...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sunken Treasures | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...Marshfield, however, the lone patrol car accompanying the peace walk disappeared briefly, allowing about 40 men and boys time to assault the marchers and break up a number of their signs...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: Pacifists Attacked on the Third Day Of March from Boston to the Cape | 8/9/1966 | See Source »

...Substitute. Reconciliation or no, Ansermet will continue his assault on atonal music. After he retires from the Suisse Romande at the end of next season, one of his first projects will be to write a second book "in order to make the first book clear." His objections to atonality are not those of an old man clinging to the past, but of a musician expressing a carefully thought-out conviction. The trends in new music, he suggests, are simply a sad substitute for originality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Mellowing Rebel | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

George A. Willmore is a helicopter pilot who has flown 400 assault operations in Viet Nam, has had his craft hit by gunfire 23 times, has twice been shot down and has collected the Bronze Star and eight oakleaf clusters for his Air Medal. Now Captain Willmore, 31, has become the first and only serviceman in the Vietnamese war to declare for public office in the U.S. Willmore is seeking the Democratic nomination for Congressman in Idaho's Second District, has already won the party's official endorsement. Last week he started home to prepare for the August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Political Notes: Out of the Fight into the Fire | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

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