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Dates: during 1960-1969
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South Viet Nam planes dropped flares over Due Hoa and used the glaring illumination to strafe and bomb the Viet Cong positions outside the village. By morning, truckloads of troops were converging on Due Hoa to follow up the retreating guerrillas. Not only South Vietnamese combat soldiers were being employed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Plan & Counterplan | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

The temperature at Melbourne's Koo-yong stadium boiled to 112° last week, but nobody minded except the spectators (too of whom fainted in their seats) and a listless pair of players from sunny Italy. In a mismatch worthy of the Roman Colosseum, Australia's Davis Cup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best in the World | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

In Washington's party-of-the-week. Diane ("Dede") Buchanan, 18, daughter of former State Department Protocol Chief Wiley Buchanan, made her debut in the stately gold-and-white Washington headquarters of the Organization of American States. Upstairs, the elegant elders made their way through a champagne supper to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 29, 1961 | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

British-born Jack Romagna, 51, earned his place in the White House by an early determination to become the best shorthand reporter in the business. As a boy of 13 in Washington, where his father was butler to the late U.S. Senator Davis Elkins of West Virginia. Romagna learned Gregg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prodigious Pen | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

In Pocketful of Miracles (United Artists), Director Frank Capra's reglaze of a soggy old (1933) candied apple called Lady for a Day, Bette Davis, 53, finds heavier slogging on the comeback trail. She is cast as Apple Annie, one of those studiously shabby, relentlessly endearing sentimendicants who are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Acting Their Age | 12/29/1961 | See Source »

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