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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their failings, the South Vietnamese are still killing nearly three Viet Cong for every loss of their own (see chart). And despite the grim headlines about Quangngai and Dongxoai, the Reds have yet to capture and hold a district or provincial capital for more than a few hours. What South Viet Nam's fighting men need is relief, however momentary, to shed the fatigue and despair of too much combat. Only the U.S. and its allies can provide that respite. When they do, the leadership and combativeness exemplified by Corporal Tu and Laughing Larry Luong, Major Cuong and Lieut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Those Who Must Die | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...astronomers probe outward in space, they are looking backward in time, because the light that they see from very distant objects started its journey millions of years ago. They see the light from stars that no longer exist, and chart strange, starlike objects that could hold the secret of how the universe began. Quasars (for quasi-stellar radio sources) are the most intriguing of these objects, the oldest and most brilliant things in the observable universe, and the sources of powerful and mysterious radio waves. Now astronomers have identified a new class of quasi-stellar objects shining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: The Quasi-Quasars | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

...test that potential. The best in the black book eventually rise to the "Greenbrier Group," a select party of executives who are invited every three years to a top-secret meeting in Greenbrier, W. Va., where they study G.M.'s past, reflect upon its present and try to chart its future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Managing to Succeed | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...role, Simon spends most of his time searching for companies with qualities that make them attractive to move into. He calls upon a topflight staff of experts to help him chart strategy. Among them is Stella Russell, a onetime Simon assistant who is now a director of Hunt, Wheeling and McCall's and who is known inside the company as "the translator" because of her facility for explaining to others what Simon is trying to say. The others: Hunt Vice Chairman Jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Management: The Corporate Cezanne | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...FRENCH DOLL by Vincent McConnor. 250 pages. Hill & Wang. $3.95. In this one the agent works for the U.S.'s Central Intelligence Agency. He starts off impersonating an American pilot who has been dead some 20 years but who sold an important flight chart to the Nazis in the last days of World War II. Bullets and bodies start falling around him the minute he assumes the disguise. This book is in the older tradition of shoot first and don't ask questions afterward because what is one life anyhow. But it also provides a kind of Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Spies & Eyes | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

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