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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history or politics). During the decade since the French were defeated at Dienbienphu, TIME has carried 14 cover stories on the Vietnamese conflict, at times reporting hope and at others near despair. This time, though a dramatic reversal has taken place in Viet Nam: the drift of defeat has been halted by the overwhelming new U.S. buildup. This issue of TIME tells-as it has not been told anywhere else-the story of how this happened, and of events that have already destroyed many clichés about Viet Nam, including the one that Americans would not know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Oct. 22, 1965 | 10/22/1965 | See Source »

...gave the International Typographical Union virtual veto rights over any new machines. The move promised little in the way of future benefit, but it added to present trouble. Now the Guild insists that its very survival demands the same power. Otherwise, it says, jobs that it now controls may drift into I.T.U. jurisdiction. And when it isn't fighting over automation, the Guild, which might be expected to encourage modernizing, is squabbling with the Times over pensions and job security for members who might lose work if other New York papers merge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: A Dismal Situation | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...would like to say clearly in the beginning that there was no slosh of false optimism or any drift of phony phantasizing mingling with my real reasons for moving from Cambridge into the South...

Author: By Jonathan Kozol, | Title: Why I Moved Into Roxbury | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

Lichtheim asserted that the Times "persistently fails" to "acquaint its readers with the real drift of affairs abroad, notably when that drift--and this is where a kind of censorship appears to come in--runs counter to the editorial frame of reference...

Author: By Richard Blumenthal, | Title: Professors Still Think 'Times' Is Best | 9/28/1965 | See Source »

...work ing imaginatively to make a happier and more beautiful city for all its people. New Orleans, the Crescent City that habitually bubbles like a Jeroboam of Mumm, struggled agonizingly back from the flat despair sowed by Hurricane Betsy. And in New York, after years of soul-deadening drift, the voters leaned forward for what looked like the first no-holds-barred, two-party mayoral contest in years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Finite & Soluble | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

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