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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...side entrance of the Independence Palace saw a distant blur of moving men. There was a shout: "Open the palace gates! We are the Liberation Army!" Then, rockets blazing, the Viet Cong commandos charged. From that moment on, fighting broke out all over the city, to the crack and boom of rockets, mortars and bazookas, the chop of machine-gun fire and the whine of ricocheting bullets. For the would-be liberators of the Independence Palace, the reply was a hail of fire. Retreating across the streets, the Communists took up positions in a half-completed hotel, killed the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The General's Gamble | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...CRIMSON is offensive and badly written. The parallel is admittedly a bad one because Harvard University wields a big stick in town and the local officials wouldn't want to tangle with Harvard Law professors over the issue. The point is, however, that the reason they would never crack down on the CRIMSON is because it doesn't deserve to be cracked down upon (a pity) but even if it did represent an affront to public mores, they wouldn't dare touch us because of the power behind...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Harvard Students on Trial | 1/29/1968 | See Source »

...most recent Avatar, the Children's Issue? Because if you didn't you should buy it and decide for yourself whether it is obscene in comparison with the girlie mags. If it isn't obscene then the police are cracking down on political obscenity and not literary obscenity. Perhaps local officials want to crack down on the mouthpiece of the hippies. But where is there a law that says you can harass a segment of the population you disapprove of? Haven't we been fighting that kind of thing in the South? Oh, but local politicians get mileage...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Harvard Students on Trial | 1/29/1968 | See Source »

Richard Rodney Bennett, arrived in Manhattan last week with a resounding bang. Within 24 hours the crack Opera Theater at the Juilliard School gave Bennett's The Mines of Sulphur its American premiere and at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Leonard Bernstein led the New York Philharmonic in his Symphony No. 2, which the orchestra had commissioned for its 125th anniversary year. Cinemagoers could also sample Bennett's style in his background score for Far from the Madding Crowd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Composers: The Bennett Bash | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

...well-established figures as the Minneapolis Symphony's Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, 44, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw's Bernard Haitink, 38, down to such newer personalities as the Houston Symphony's André Previn, 38, and the Met's Thomas Schippers, 37. At the top is a crack cadre of gifted conductors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Gypsy Boy | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

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