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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Suddenly a Sparrow. The first encounter took place just north of Hanoi as four Air Force F-4C Phantom II jetfighters, flying "CAP" (Combat Air Patrol) for a bombing strike on the Bac Giang bridge linking Hanoi with China, headed down to their orbit area. At 18,000 feet they picked up "bogies" on their radar, and wheeled to intercept them. Within minutes they spotted six MIG-175 flying level in close formation below them. The MIGs jettisoned their external gas tanks, split up, and with cannons winking, climbed to meet the Phantoms' attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Duels in the Sun | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...Least Harm. In the bars already open, teen-age boys serve as waiters, carrying bottle openers tied to the ends of rags. The panache with which they knock the cap off a bottle of beer, sending the top sailing to the ceiling, lends lively contrast to the slothlike movements of the bar's eight girls, shuffling from soldier to soldier. The price of a "short time" varies with the demand from $2.50 to $5 and inevitably has produced grumbling. "General Kinnard ought to put his foot down," complained one cavalryman last week. "Five bucks is too high. He oughta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Disneyland East | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...place and limited to no class or race. It is Jerkism when Negro hoodlums loot a shoe store. It is Jerkism when Ivy League types commit vandalism at a debutante party, and Jerkism when Bronx teenagers drop down to the Yankee Stadium outfield and steal Mickey Mantle's cap. It is Jerkism to lie down on the floor of the White House or on the tracks of the Southern Pacific to 'protest' anything. It is Jerkism to drink three Martinis, and Jerkism to pretend that Pop Art is Art. It is Jerkism for a boy to grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scold in Spats | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Orson Welles narrates this report (in color) on the underwater experiments of France's Jacques-Yves Cousteau (The World of Silence), whose Continental Shelf Station III-328 ft. below the surface of the Mediterranean off Cap Ferrat-was the home of six French "oceanauts" for 21 days, 17 hours and 16 minutes, the longest man has ever stayed at such a depth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 29, 1966 | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...PETER WRIGHT, O.F.M. CAP...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 22, 1966 | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

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