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Elephant Gun. Last week, as the Viet Cong again dropped mortar shells on several U.S. Marine cantonments in the perimeter around Danang, the President and his advisers were considering a problem that was a corollary to the decision to resume bombing. How heavily should U.S. war planes bomb the North...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The String Runs Out | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

Once such extreme fashion could be worn, as one U.S. buyer put it, "only on top of an elephant in the Barnum & Bailey Circus." Today, with more informal living, chances are excellent that many a young thing this summer will flutter about in wide drapery harem pants, try slinging her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: La Dolce Vista | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

Well, not too terrified. The ostrich swallows a transistor radio and becomes a feathered walkie-talkie, the elephant slurps up a gentleman's bath, and the zebra turns domestic. On balance, the kid himself might seem the worst behaved, but Zebra isn't that kind of bestiary. Producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Zoo Story | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

Moving out of the mountains and across the la Drang River, 500 troops walked through prickly elephant grass into a Communist ambush. From three sides, Viet Minh hardhats rained mortar, rocket and small-arms fire on the troops. Shouting "G.I. son of a bitch!," they sprang from behind hedgerows and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Gen. Westmoreland, The Guardians at the Gate | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

Though not always as aggressive as their comrades from the North, the Viet Cong guerrillas have been around for so long that they know every thicket and clump of elephant grass for miles around. Kinnard told of a conversation his men had monitored on the V.C. radio network. "All right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Gen. Westmoreland, The Guardians at the Gate | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

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