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A light plane buzzed through the clear morning air above Kenya's Tsavo National Park. In the rolling bushland below grazed herds of zebra, kudu, oryx and hartebeest, swishing away flies with their tails. Suddenly, from the middle of a patch of thorn trees, flashed the white flick of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Africa: The Great Elephant Hunt | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

What matters more is that the Lester manner conflicts with the Mostel style. Caught up in the director's web of whimsies, this most projectively physiological of comedians subsides like an elephant conquered by cobwebs. Not once is Hero Zero permitted to charge the camera, as he charged his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Erotic Errors | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

Gold & Ostriches. South Africa is a land of bright sun and haunting beauty. Fine wine grapes grow in the protected valleys in the southwest, while elephant, rhino and springbok range the high savanna of Kruger National Park in the northeast. Ostrich farms dot the harsh, baked landscape beneath the kopjes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa: The Great White Laager | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

Free at last, Dodson and Eckes began a four-day trek back to Danang. Once the enemy passed within three feet of them while they crouched in 6-ft.-tall elephant grass; another time a herd of buffalo chased them. For sustenance, they had the remains of a $16 bag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A Tale of Two Prisoners | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

Last week U.S. officials disclosed that 16,000 Red troops had been killed in the first four months of 1966, nearly equal to the 19,000 that were infiltrated down the Ho Chi Minh trail from North Viet Nam in the same period. Down the trail must also come nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: The Red Napoleon | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

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