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(2 of 2) them through the swamps. The Reds refused to join battle, fell back slowly under a protective hail of small-arms fire. Then in whirled a covey of U.S. choppers carrying the "anvil"-troops of the South Vietnamese 44th Ranger Battalion, who landed behind the Reds and quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Matter of Mobility | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

Last April the Elephant Valley was deep, dark Viet Cong country. Paths and paddies were deserted by day; the rifles of Red snipers dominated the night. When Clement's battalion of marines moved in, they found the 20,000 inhabitants of the 100-sq.-mi. region sullen and closemouthed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Big Joe No. 1 | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

> Kumaraswami Kamaraj Nadar, 63, barrel-chested boss of Madras, who as president of the Congress Party dreamed up the consensus scheme as a means of installing Shastri after Nehru's death. But Kamaraj speaks only Tamil, and even if Shastri were to vanish, would be content to remain only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Pride & Reality | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

Tennis, Anyone? So is Terry-Thomas. Though after 30 films he has virtually monopolized the comic English codger role and added his own lunatic stripe to the Old School Tie, it is often hard to tell whether he is spoofing the upper-crust Briton or simply being one. On his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actors: Which Is the Real Hoar-Stevens? | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

Hunters have a habit of excusing the rhino's evil temper (he's nearsighted) and the rogue elephant's murderous charge (he probably has a toothache). But hardly anybody has a good word for the shark. On any coastline, the cry "Shark!" is guaranteed to produce 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fishing: Shark-Eating Men | 6/25/1965 | See Source »

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