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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 90 per cent of Dunster's resident students also signed the petition, which states that Dunster is "appalled that University officials would destroy the very institution that they themselves profess to be the very heart of the Harvard experience...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: Dunster Petition Protests Closing Of Dining Room | 4/16/1968 | See Source »

Humphrey's most important aid could come from his "constituency of one," Lyondon B. Johnson. But the President has told Democratic leaders that he will not try to influence their choice--a large-scale effort by the White House to secure Humphrey's nomination could destroy Johnson's statesmanlike pose, and it would humiliate the President if it failed. Some of LBJ's closest friends have predicted that he might not even endorse his Vice-President...

Author: By Jack D. Burke jr., | Title: Hubert's Wagon | 4/15/1968 | See Source »

...shock effects, cost the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong heavily. Recently, a 9th Infantry Division brigade captured a revealing critique of the Tet fighting. Issued by Hanoi's Central Office for South Viet Nam, it said: "We failed to seize a number of primary objectives and to destroy mobile and defense units of the enemy. We also failed to motivate the people to stage uprisings. The enemy still resisted and his units were not dis rupted into pieces." The U.S. estimate of enemy combat deaths between Jan. 28 and Feb. 24 is 42,000. Hanoi did not mount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE WAR: Hopeful Half Steps | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...launched from Landing Zone Stud in the Khe Sui Soi river valley eleven miles northeast of Khe Sanh; its first task was to open Route 9, which had been in enemy hands since last August. Its overall goal: to create a ground supply line to Khe Sanh and to destroy the enemy around the Marine camp. To do the job, Tolson had 19,000 of his own Air Cavalrymen with their nearly 300 helicopters and 148 heliborne artillery pieces, plus 10,000 U.S. Marines and three battalions of the South Vietnamese army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Victory at Khe Sanh | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...parents, locked in a dark closet, then caned repeatedly by his father until he begged forgiveness from his mother. As Von Sydow descends into insanity, he keeps re-enacting that scene in the closet. His dread of the dark, his punishment and redemption, are constantly replayed; the characters who destroy him are shards of his shattered personality that, by direct transference, come to obsess his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: Hour of the Wolf | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

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