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...York-based writer visits Baltimore and Washington, and finds that "crime-Negro crime-is almost the only topic of conversation." The Aldine Printing Co. in Los Angeles, the world's largest manufacturer of bumper stickers, reports that its bestseller is SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE, the old Birch slogan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FEAR CAMPAIGN | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...harder to care for than macadam, the flower bed on the traffic island just North of the Common testifies that plants are feasible and refreshing mid-city and even mid-traffic. Limited areas of ground cover like pachysandra, evergreens like taxus, juniper, euonymus and holly, attractive, spare trees like birch, dogwood and Japanese cherry, and protable planters with shurbs and annuals make up a rich vocabulary a landscape architect could choose from to transform Brattle Square...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: Brattle Square | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

...supporters are not all bigots, although all but three of his 14 sponsors in Massachusetts are John Birch Society members. Wallace sympathizers are full of frustration, nostalgia and fear, bypassed or assailed by currents sweeping the country: dissent, Black Power, "coddling" of suspected criminals, social-welfare legislation, higher taxes. Whether or not he can translate this into votes, there is no doubt that Wallace is waging a savvy and effectual campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Third Party: George Less Risible | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...total number of newsmen who have died in the war to 17. As the fighting has come to Saigon and other cities, reporters have been in more danger than ever before. The previous week, TIME Correspondent John Cantwell, 30, lost his life along with three other newsmen: Michael Birch, 24, Australian Associated Press correspondent; Ronald Laramy, 31, a Reuters correspondent; and Bruce Pigott, 23, assistant bureau chief of Reuters in Saigon (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: A More Dangerous War | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...empty intersection-and then it was too late. Cantwell, who was driving, tried to put the jeep in reverse. Before he could, two Viet Cong opened fire. Palmos jumped out of the jeep, ran, staggered and pretended to fall dead. He watched the V.C. commander approach the jeep, where Birch was wounded but still alive. "Bao Chi," he pleaded, using the Vietnamese word for newsman. "Bao Chi," replied the V.C. derisively. And he pumped three rounds from his .45 into the correspondent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporting: A More Dangerous War | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

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