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...surgical. The federal army all too often advances only on roads, and by day, and sometimes takes its afternoons off from fighting. When the federal troops attack, their strategy is to saturate Biafran positions with wanton bursts of 76- and 90-mm. artillery fire, move forward quickly, then dig in and wait for the artillery to catch up. Such tactics, or at least the attitude behind them, are not confined to Nigeria's federal troops; they are commonplace with most African armies. Moreover, federal commanders have built up an army to match the scale of their weapons orders ?almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: NIGERIA'S CIVIL WAR: HATE, HUNGER AND THE WILL TO SURVIVE | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

Should he hear a disk jockey he doesn't dig, Drake gets on the blower (he has 21 phones around the house, including one in each of the five bathrooms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Executioner | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

Drake's musical suggestions, he admits, are not necessarily "in a bag I personally dig"; they are based on studies of record sales and individual markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Executioner | 8/23/1968 | See Source »

Forbidden Sales. The shrinking volume gave Wall Street a breather to dig into its massive paperwork pileup. Despite Wednesday trading recesses, which will continue at least for the rest of the month, the problem of undelivered securities and accounting confusion remains so severe that two organizations last week took drastic steps to overcome it. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith, the largest U.S. securities firm, imposed a "house rule" forbidding its salesmen to sell over-the-counter stocks for customers unless they first have physical possession of the certificates involved. The National Association of Securities Dealers, a trade group which polices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Converging Pressures | 8/16/1968 | See Source »

...landed in St. Louis. Some of the kids conceded that it was a success-although one insisted that he would rather have stayed home "huffin' butts and goin' to parties." But they had learned the advantages of cooperation and shared work. Each night the boys helped to dig the latrine or cook the chow; everyone put up tents. The kids did most of the planning too-wrote for permission to use recreational facilities, estimated provisions, got clothes ready. On the trip, there were warm receptions in river towns by the mayor or a police escort-a welcome change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Delinquents: Huck Finn, J.D. | 7/26/1968 | See Source »

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