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...responsibilities of good journalism. In the three years since the struggle in Viet Nam reached the proportions of war, TIME, in addition to its regular coverage, has had three cover stories on military commanders in the area: General Paul Harkins (May 11, 1962), Admiral U.S. Grant Sharp (Aug. 14) and General William Westmoreland (Feb. 19). The aim of this week's cover story is to tell the story of the combatants-the flyers, foot soldiers and advisers-on whom the outcome of the war may hinge, and who are now fully committed in its new phase...
...Saturday, Aug. 8, Grainger and two aides-a Vietnamese and a Filipino -set out in a pickup truck from Tuy Hoa to a sugar cane experimental station in Tan My, 21 miles away. Grainger was driving hard, since a leisurely pace on any road in that province is an invitation to attack. He passed two lightly manned government roadblocks, ignoring signals to turn back. At length he came to another roadblock, this one held by four Viet Cong. As Grainger tried to race through the block, a hand grenade landed in the road in front of the truck and exploded...
...Aug. 27, 1787, John Dickinson of Delaware, a member of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, raised a ticklish question relating to the matter of succession in the event of a President's disability. "What is the extent of the term 'disability,' " asked Dickinson, "and who is to be the judge of it?" The question was swiftly referred to a committee - where it stayed...
...Aug. 23, 1305, while thousands jeered, a fearless Scot named William Wallace, the heart and soul of his country's resistance to the conquering English, was dragged through the streets of London behind a horse, hanged by the neck, cut down while still alive, disemboweled, decapitated with a bloody great cleaver, hacked into four chunks and sent home to Scotland severally...
...earth satellite, Sputnik I, Oct. 4, 1957. > First satellite to carry an animal, Sputnik II, Nov. 3, 1957. > First photograph of hidden side of the moon, Lunik III, launched Oct. 18, 1959. > First man in space, Yuri Gagarin,. April 12, 1961. > First double launching, Andrian Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich, Aug. 11, Aug. 12, 1962. > First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, June 16, 1963. > First three-man satellite, Vladimir Komarov, Konstantin Feoktistov, Boris Yegorov...