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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most vicious fighting of the week -and perhaps of the year-occurred just south of the Demilitarized Zone around Con Thien where troopers of the U.S. 5th Mechanized Infantry Division held off North Vietnamese regulars in three days of firefights. Although the American troops were outnumbered 3 to 1 at times, superior firepower forced the enemy to retreat, leaving 178 bodies behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Communists on the Attack | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...given to wearing snug suits lined in red silk, jetted around the world with his counterfeit wares while maintaining a lavish Paris apartment and an all-male harem. Legros's partner, Lessard, was a young Canadian with a handsome, honest face. On the road he was a cool con man too, but back home he became the frightened victim of Legros's infidelities and rages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Objets d'Artifice | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...admirers: Hardy Kruger, a profile of German authority, and Sergio Franchi, a profile, period. The show's force does not reassert itself until the appearance of the extras, a cluster of paesani recruited from an Italian village 36 miles south of Rome. They provide a chorus con brio, and give the film verisimilitude no casting office could provide. "The Italian race," wrote Mussolini, "is a race of sheep." By going to the source. The Secret of Santa Vittoria shows why he lost that race-and why Italy, host to invaders and tyrants for 2,000 years, has managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Prosciutto and Melancholy | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

This process of redistribution con...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: A Guide to PR Voting | 10/29/1969 | See Source »

PITTSBURGH GLAMOUR The retirement after ten years of May or Joseph Barr, who found himself "con demned by the blacks because I didn't do enough and by the whites because I did too much," leaves the once invincible Democratic machine bereft. Democratic City Councilman Peter Flaherty, 44, moved into the breach, challenged a mediocre organization candidate in the primary, and won. He looks like a Kennedy and is running independently of party headquarters. His main pitch is anti-bossism. He pleads for harmony between blacks and whites, who are bitterly divided by a Negro drive for more construction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: CITIES: SHATTERED ELECTION PATTERNS | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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