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...piles of garbage that accumulated during the first two weeks after Tet have mercifully been cleared away, even so, Saigon remains the dirtiest city in Asia, and the marks of war further blotch the city's face. In the Chinese quarter of Cholon, the heaviest damaged area, only rubble and fragments of walls mark the places where row upon row of one-story houses once stood. Patched up and painted, the U.S. embassy shows few scars from its dust-up with the Viet Cong, but many buildings elsewhere are pockmarked by bullets and bomb fragments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Saigon Under Siege | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

...connection between Avatar's plight and Mayor Hayes' celebrated war on hippies is unmistakable. On November 13, City Councillors Sullivan and Vellucci frantically denounced Avatar as "the dirtiest stuff that was ever published" and "so filthy that I wouldn't want anyone to read it." Sullivan then introduced an order asking DeGugleielmo to confer with the Chief of Police "with a view to instituting proceedings for criminal prosecution of the owners, writers and distributors of the so-called 'hippie' newspapers now being sold through the City." Of course, the order was not necessary. Working through the permit ordinance--and outside...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stop the War on AVATAR | 12/7/1967 | See Source »

...names of newspapers were not mentioned yesterday, but a copy of the Avatar was passed around the council chambers. Sullivan called it "The dirtiest stuff that was ever published...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Council Told Some One-Way Streets Will Return to Two-Way Patterns | 11/14/1967 | See Source »

...bout tomorrow? Will love produced by a drug remain forever? Is embracing a non-tripping world realistic? Corman produces enough ambiguity to placate the rest of the world while he angles for a cool-world audience. He calculates the indecisiveness of his movies. A cop-out of the dirtiest kind...

Author: By Joel Demott, | Title: The Wild Angels, The Trip | 8/8/1967 | See Source »

...Many Butts. And maybe the dirtiest. Angered by Benvenuti's prefight predictions of victory, Griffith hit on the break and after the bell, repeatedly rubbed the laces of his gloves in Nino's face, butted open a gash on Nino's nose-and managed one legitimate looping right that knocked him down for a five count. Benvenuti still made good his boast. Ignoring the blood that was streaming from his nose, he decked Griffith with a right uppercut in the second round. Counterpunching beautifully, making full use of his 3-in. advantage in reach, he kept Emile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: A Title for Trieste | 4/28/1967 | See Source »

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