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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thailand's importance really rests on its key position in the heart of Southeast Asia, and in the promise of its resources to create a genuine revolution before the Communists can dig in. If Viet Nam has reached Mao's Stage 3 of massed battles in the revolutionary manual, Thailand is still in Stage 1. That is the organization of insurrection of the grass roots-and the Thais have a chance to arrest it there. Though the gunfire now resounds in Viet Nam, the vital core on which all Southeast Asia depends, as a glance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Holder of the Kingdom, Strength of the Land | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

...incomes above $100,000 in the U.S. Now, Britain has embraced deliberately discriminatory taxes to tinker with its troubled economy. That may well prove a high price to pay in order to placate foreign creditors without sacrificing prosperity, for it still fails to dig at the roots of Britain's problem: lax management and hidebound labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Out of the Black Case | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

...pages; $5.95), is a pot-and-peyote boiler about a supercooled campus hippie named Gnossos Pappadopoulis. Written by the brother-in-law of Folk Singer Joan Baez, the book is fashionably half-coherent, a collection of Kerouacky kinks. Gnossos turns on four times a day, calls girls "man," says "dig" a great deal, makes like the Green Hornet with cringing officials at Mentor University, rucksacks triumphantly to Mexico, Las Vegas and Cuba, knows how to hot-wire a car, plays Corelli on his phonograph, and even wins acceptance as an equal by Negro bartenders. Most readers will be more discriminating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nosepicking Contests | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

...prospect is not pleasing: the new subway tunnel represents a threat of permanent vibration, and while construction is underway, the Yard would be a monumental mess. MBTA engineers would probably use a cut-over technique of construction through the Yard; that is, they would dig down from the surface, build their tunnel, and then relandscape the surface when the tunnel is completed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Radcliffe Tunnel | 5/2/1966 | See Source »

...Melvin G. Reuger is lecturing every single cop on the meaning of Escobedo, and sharply advising them to "do a more effective job before you start talking to a defendant." Adds Atlanta's Detective Superintendent Clinton Chafin: "People now realize they've got to get out and dig up the evidence." Detroit's Detective Chief Vincent Piersante recently revealed a significant set of statistics. In prewarning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Justice: Concern About Confessions | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

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