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...Black men being beaten in front of their women, I lose a bit of my manhood. When I think of how I'm not able to protect myself nor my little woman from the greedy, sadistic hands, mean cruel White hearts, and evil minds of the "White Devil," I lose a bit of my manhood and I shudder and hide my face in shame...

Author: By Harold Vann, | Title: A Black Man's Lament | 7/30/1968 | See Source »

...that took courage: the estate had become headquarters of the Theosophical Society in America, a mysterious non-Christian movement often suspected of being more occult than cult. Praying for the souls of the benighted Theosophists, the seminarians feared that both they and the town would be hexed by the Devil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theosophy: Cult of the Occult | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...Monsignor Joseph A. McCaffrey, it often seemed as if the devil himself had been the architect of his parish. At night, the streets teem with vagrants, homosexuals and brazen hookers. Bookstores flaunt their pornographic wares, and nudie movie houses flicker a mix of erotica and violence almost until dawn. As pastor of New York's Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church on 42nd Street, only two blocks off Broadway, McCaffrey spent 36 years crusading against the seamy side of the Great White Way. Acting like a one-man Legion of Decency, he won the newspaper title "Bishop of Times Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sin v. The Monsignor | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...Galaxy military transport measures barely 10 yds. shorter than a football field, sports a tail assembly as tall as a six-story building, and has a cargo compartment that is longer than the Wright brothers' first flight off the side of North Carolina's Kill Devil Hill sand dune. And it flies. At Georgia's Dobbins Air Force Base one morning last week, following an overnight postponement because of last-minute technical problems, the first C-5 lifted gently off the runway for a 94-minute test. Aside from some minor difficulty with the landing gear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aircraft: The Biggest Bird | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...Devil. Public statements by both sides also suggested new flexibility. "We are prepared to cease bombardment at the appropriate time," insisted Negotiator Cyrus Vance, repeating the U.S. appeal to Hanoi for a reciprocal gesture of de-escalation but couching it in the broadest terms to date. "This could be done de facto," said Vance. "It could be done by some indication, either directly or indirectly, that such a step is being taken." Hanoi's delegates refused to accept that gambit, but Radio Hanoi implicitly met a longstanding U.S. demand that North Viet Nam acknowledge the presence of its troops...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Negotiations: New Flexibility | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

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