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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major city or military center in the country that had not suffered some enemy fire. The numbers of provincial capitals that came under attack this year and last were identical: 29. "If you plotted the action by throwing up darts at a board," said one U.S. officer, "they'd look about the same." Outwardly the most distressing comparison turned up in U.S. casualty figures: in the first two weeks of the offensive, the number of American dead reached 783, just 33 men short of last year's two-week total...
Among the believers, one or two mild Jewish faces are to be seen. The Jews may have been baptized, or not. They, too, glance nervously around them as they wait for the procession. We all run down the Jews, the Jews are always in our way, but we'd do well to look: What kind of Russians have we raised? Look, and your heart stops still...
...basement of the Shambala Bookstore on Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue near the university's campus, 20-year-old Sheila O'Neil looked up from her calculations on the chart before her and shook her head. "We'd better postpone the organization meeting until next week," she said. "Mercury's going into opposition with Saturn in the 3rd House, which will mean bad communicating. But next Tuesday all systems will...
...positive terms. "If I find a strong indication, say, that someone is going to lose his job, I say: 'You know, nothing in life is certain. This is a period of change. Your chart shows that you have some interesting new beginnings, and if I were you I'd prepare for them.' " He also tries to discourage what Client Robert Cummings calls "astrological hypochondria." Says Righter: "If all they want to know is what color suit or dress to wear, I cut them off, and I just won't talk to them again until they straighten...
...members of the Mod Squad are not so sanguine. "Three kids working for the cops like that, it's not what you'd call realistic," says Williams, 28, who was among the first actors to adopt Afro-style hair and dress. "It's just entertainment. Every time you set out to say something significant on TV, it gets chopped down. I don't say 'Hey, man, this is what's happening, baby; you gotta write it this way.' I'm just a lowly actor doing his job." Cole, whose first leading role...