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Orders with Kick. To reach Aba, federal forces had to cross the swift cur rents of the Imo River, which the Bi-afrans had established as the major defense line protecting Aba by the simple expedient of blowing up the main bridges. They had left just one bridge intact-at Awaza-and it was heavily mined. When federal marine comman dos stepped onto the bridge, it, too, exploded and vanished. The blast, however, failed to stop federal soldiers from running across the catwalk on top of a natural-gas pipeline that spanned the river parallel to the bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: Biafra's Two Wars | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

However, the rule was not meant to apply to John Wayne, who was called on for an "inspirational reading" rather than a run-of-the-mill invocation. Demonstrations for candidates were also cur tailed. When Lincoln was nominated in 1860, such a din rocked Chicago's Wigwam auditorium that, as one witness observed, "a thousand steam whistles, ten acres of hotel gongs, a tribe of Comanches might have mingled in the scene unnoticed." Miami Beach will be different. This time candidates were limited?in theory at least?to 20-minute outbursts in their behalf with no more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: KEYNOTE TO OPPORTUNITY | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...dividends, to be sure. At cur rent prices IBM's annual dividends ($4.35 last year) amount to a mere .7% return on investment, against 4% for other manufacturing stocks and 5% for bank savings accounts. But growth is something else again. As a result of splits-including this week's-and other distributions, a 100-share investment in 1914, which would have cost $2,750, has grown to 59,320 shares worth more than $20 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: IBM's Super Split | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

Villain, traitor, cur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Paradox of Power | 1/5/1968 | See Source »

McConnell testified that without the 21 years of aerial interdiction so far leveled against North Viet Nam, "perhaps more than 800,000 additional U. S. troops, at a cost of $75 billion over what we have spent," might have been needed to maintain the war at its cur rent level-and, of course, "we would have suffered many more casualties on the battlefield." McConnell argued that American bombing could have been more effective if it had been less "gradual." "It was the second of March 1965," he reminisced, "and we recommended what we called a sharp, sudden blow which would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: More of the Same | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

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