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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...North has also been using ground radar in a more sophisticated fashion to track incoming bombers and has enabled its pilots to exploit an American blind spot. Knowing that U.S. pilots have to locate their targets-and must take pains to avoid restricted areas-the MIGs have been climbing above the clouds and out of sight to await the attackers. Then they swoop down like hawks, rip through a U.S. squadron with guns ablaze and vanish into the blue. With such tactics, the MIGs have lately shot down almost as many planes as they have lost-though the U.S. still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Into Exile | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...fulfilling our responsibility to this national commitment of a democratic society. Napalm is highly effective in certain specific combat situations encountered in Viet Nam. General Wheeler, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has described the necessity for the use of this material and the great precautions taken to avoid injury to civilians. He has also made the point that effective weapons such as napalm are saving the lives of American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: Ire Against Fire | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

Because Review tries to avoid what Buckley calls "extreme apriorism," it has parted company with some dogmatic conservatives. "Objectivist" Ayn Rand, who believes that all human activity should be self-serving, refuses even to appear in the same room with Buckley because the Review panned her novel Atlas Shrugged. Max Eastman resigned, with barbs on both sides, after he accused Buckley of tying conservatism too closely to religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: The Sniper | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...suggestion for a Faculty-student-Administration committee is a welcome indication of concern. President Pusey should implement this suggestion as soon as possible in order to begin meaningful communication between Faculty and students. Now that the Faculty has taken action against the Mallinckrodt offenders, it should discuss possibilities to avoid the growing division between "us and them...

Author: By Paul J. Corkery, Richard R. Edmonds, Kerry Gruson, John A. Herfort, Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., Richard D. Paisner, and Gerald M. Rosberg, S | Title: The Faculty's Stern Decision | 11/2/1967 | See Source »

...basis of the first two programs, the project is eminently worthwhile. Its originators decided to avoid a straight documentary approach in favor of presenting their material as dramas that emphasize a couple of critical moments or events in the subjects' lives. In this way they were perhaps following the lead of the fine television series based on John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage. The scripts will win no literary prizes, but they do incorporate a good deal of historically accurate information and also manage to convey an idea of their characters' personalities...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Great American Negroes | 11/1/1967 | See Source »

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