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This time of the year, when the monsoons flood the Mekong Delta, water is everywhere. The canals, which are the roads of the region, run long and straight from swollen rivers. All war plans inevitably involve boats. Under cover of night, the Communists cart their troops and supplies in flotillas of long, narrow, shallow-draft sampans; the same boats that carry the enemy to battle take him away when he retreats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Reminiscence on a River | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

...could not, of course, arrange everything. As the carnival parade snaked by the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, a bomb inside an icecream cart exploded in the middle of the crowd. Another bomb went off a few hours later, while the Haitian capital was blacked out by one of its recurrent power failures. The toll: two dead, 40 injured. Duvalier's response was automatic. While the sirens of ambulances pierced the air and the government-controlled radio station called for all doctors to report to the city's general hospital, he ordered the mobilization of Haiti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Haiti: The Birthday Blowout | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

...only Crimson player besides Devereaux to be extended. Adelsberg, last year's New England Intercollegiate Champion, was erratic as he overpowered M.I.T.'s Rich Thurber 7-5, 6-3. He then teamed with captain Brian Davis to win the second doubles, 8-6, 6-3 over M.I.T.'s Cart Weissgerber and Steve Deneroff, Davis had routed Weissgerber earlier in the number two singles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tennis Team Shuts Out M.I.T.--Again | 4/13/1967 | See Source »

...wheels his cart up the aisle. He picks up a strawberry shortcake bowl full of Marlboro filters and dumps in into the plastic trash...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: Harvard on $5 a Day | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

...Supermarket boycotts spread like butter on a sizzling griddle last week. Encouraged by reports that several shopping-cart blockades the week before had forced the great chains to lower some prices, housewives marched in more than 100 cities. Placard-waving pickets popped up in places as disparate as Pittsburgh and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Washington, B.C. and Lubbock, Texas. Esther Peterson, the former Utah schoolteacher who is the President's special assistant for consumer affairs, egged on a band of New York City demonstrators, urging them to "vote with the dollar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Behind the Boycotts: Why Prices are High | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

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