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Novelist Tam, 58, was a revolutionary leader in Indo-China's war against the French. But after independence in 1954, he grew increasingly disenchanted with the authoritarian rule of South Viet Nam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. Fortnight ago, Diem's government charged Tam and 34 others with treason by conspiring to overthrow the President in an abortive coup attempt in November 1960. It was just two days before the scheduled trial that Tam committed suicide, and he explained why in a note he left behind. "The arrest and trial of all nationalist opponents of the regime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Suicide in Many Forms | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

...world's oceans, the man who commands a ship is, by necessity as well as by tradition, the unquestioned lord of his vessel. Some top admirals of the U.S. Navy carry this quality to shorebound duties in the Pentagon. But nowadays they are questioned by an equally authoritarian operator, Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara. And right in the middle of these collision-bound forces sits a string bean of a Texan who holds down one of the most impossible jobs in Washington: Navy Secretary Fred Korth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Man in the Middle | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

White, too, questioned the usefulness of much American foreign aid. Although he admitted foreign aid could reduce the need for authoritarian methods of raising capital domestically, he claimed that its usefulness is often overrated...

Author: By Charles W. Bevard jr., | Title: Panelists Foresee Slight Danger That Less-Developed Countries Will 'Drift Toward Communism' | 6/13/1963 | See Source »

...angry, narrow sociologists (the late C. Wright Mills) or sociology's cheap popularizer (Vance Packard), or a Marxist culture quack (Erich Fromm). Speaking for more serious observers, Protestant Theologian Paul Tillich fears that the pressures on the individual to conform and adjust may mean a drift toward collectivism and "authoritarian democracy," that man may become

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LINCOLN AND MODERN AMERICA | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...authority. Having lost his God, Jung says, Freud had made an even more terrible god out of sexuality. "Sexuality evidently meant more to Freud than to other people," Jung wrote. "For him it was something to be religiously observed." To Jung, Freud was a tragic figure-an authoritarian beset with the curse of the Caesars, a hollow old man haunted by obsessions. At last, Jung dreamed of Freud conclusively: he saw him dressed in the uniform of an imperial Austrian customs inspector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Dark & Light of Dreams | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

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