Word: com
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...their defiance of the government. Rumanian Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu, an earlier liberalizer (TIME cover, March 18, 1966), read the handwriting on the wall and decided that Rumania should go farther along the reform road. Everyone should be free to criticize the Communist party, Ceausescu told his Central Com mittee, even when "diverse and wrong views appear...
Last August, when Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach imprudently told the Foreign Relations Com mittee that Johnson did not need any congressional declaration to conduct the war, McCarthy stormed out of the hearing. "This is the wildest testimony I ever heard," he told a newsman in the corridor. "There is only one thing to do -take it to the country...
Ultimate Compliment. In addition to longer-range rockets, the Communists now have a Russian-made close-in com bat rocket whose striking power is so great that it can penetrate ten inches of armor plating at a range of up to 550 yards. Variously called the RPG-7 or B-41, it was developed by the Soviets from the famed German World War II Panzerfaust. It weighs only 20 lbs., has a special sighting device for accuracy, and gives the common Communist fighter the ability to knock a hole in the most heavily armored U.S. tank...
...heart of Atlanta is rising Peachtree Center, a $175 million com plex that already includes the 22-story Merchandise Mart, three office build ings, a bus terminal with a 2,000-seat theater, and the new, 800-room Regency Hyatt House. Soon to be added are a 70-story office skyscraper and sev eral high-rise apartment buildings. As a civic enterprise, it would do justice to any U.S. city. What makes it all the more remarkable is that the whole of Peachtree Center has gone up without a penny of public funds...
...this amiable little situation com edy, Paul Newman is Private No-Class Harry Frigg, who is so unskillful at concealing his contempt for the World War II brass that he is constantly being thrown into the stockade for insulting officers. But he is just as constantly escaping, which leads to the fulfillment of a dogface's daydream: instant promotion to two-star general...