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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bloody Communist attacks staged the length and breadth of South Viet Nam left Washington shocked and stunned-and with good reason. While all eyes were fixed on Khe Sanh, where as many as five enemy divisions were poised for a major offensive, the Communists swarmed through 38 major cities, attacked nearly every major U.S. military installation in Viet Nam, and invaded the U.S. embassy in Saigon, holding out there for 6½ hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Double Trouble | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...Breadth to Scholars. In Italy, reli gious publishers have their own unofficial catalogue of bishops, distinguishing the easy marks from tough critics. Ital ian imprimatur seekers have found that bishops of smaller dioceses tend to be much faster in approving books. For that reason, the Sons of Mary Immaculate, who operate a huge publishing house, and a bookstore only a few hun dred yards from the Vatican, get most of their imprimaturs from Bishop Luigi Morstabilini of Brescia, in northern Italy. A theologian himself, Morstabilini has been discovered by other publishers as well, issues an imprimatur every two or three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: End of the imprimatur | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...Hair's Breadth...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Cambridge Still Counting Council Election Returns | 11/11/1967 | See Source »

Yesterday's redistribution put two challengers for council seats--School committeewoman Barbara Ackermann and Thomas W. Danehy--within a hair's breadth of election. Danehy now needs 94 votes to meet the election quota; Ackermann must pick...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Cambridge Still Counting Council Election Returns | 11/11/1967 | See Source »

...twoddle of a fuddled brain. In the beginning was the whirred, whorled prose of James Joyce; now a group of unknowns have transformed Finnegans Wake into a movie. Surprisingly, many of the book's Eire-borne visions work as screedwriter becomes screenwriter and his prose gains the breadth of life. A tavernkeeper, H. C. Earwicker (Martin J. Kelley) sleeps drunkenly dreaming of his wife Anna Livia Plurabelle, his daughter and his two sons Shem and Shaun. In the back ground runs the ballad about Finnegan's Wake, the saga of a laborer who falls off a scaffold, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Eire-Borne Visions | 10/20/1967 | See Source »

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