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I first read Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano on the all-night train trip from Central Mexico to the U.S. border at Nuevo Laredo. The trip, particularly in the second class compartment, easily beats a coast-to-coast Greyhound for discomfort. Mexican women with three children and a rooster...

Author: By William C. Bryson, | Title: Malcolm Lowry, 11 Years Dead, Is Pawing Through the Ashes of His One Great Work | 12/17/1968 | See Source »

It was just past 3 a.m. last week when the deafening roar of high explosive split the quiet moonlit night. The blast slammed the Greek tanker Eleftheroupolis against its pier near the Nha Be tank farm southeast of Saigon, Despite the constant allied watch on shipping along the entire 30...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Guarding the Gauntlet | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

Heavy Guard. For a man of 70 in uncertain health, the 5,941-mile flight to Bogota was an ordeal, and the Pope's aides tried to surround him with every amenity. Paul's compartment in the specially outfitted Colombian jet that carried him on the 11-hr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Pope in Latin America | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

When the talks, which were supposed to last only one day, dragged into two and then three days, the Czechoslovaks became apprehensive. Brezhnev mysteriously took ill and returned to his train compartment on the third day. Some observers feared that the sudden departure was only a diplomatic tactic, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: DUB | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s C-5 Galaxy military transport measures barely 10 yds. shorter than a football field, sports a tail assembly as tall as a six-story building, and has a cargo compartment that is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight off the side of North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aircraft: The Biggest Bird | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

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