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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their deaths to capture hills and positions that have no relation to this conflict." After initial hesitation, the Army fought back, describing the battle as a "tremendous, gallant victory." Major General Melvin Zais, commander of the 101st, observed that "the only significance of Hill 937 was the fact that there were North Vietnamese on it. My mission was to destroy enemy forces and installations. We found the enemy on Hill 937, and that is where we fought him." Bypassing the hill would have made no military sense, he explained, because it would have given the Communists control of the high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE BATTLE FOR HAMBURGER HILL | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...late 20s, testified that there is much discontent, but that people are afraid of talking honestly except among friends since the penalty for dissent is jail. Rationing is still strict, he said, and the 30-lb. monthly rice allotment is now 60% laced with Soviet wheat, a fact that distresses the North Vietnamese, who, like most Asians, find cereal grains untoothsome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: Trying to Read Ho | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...reason for this phenomenon is the fact that today's collegians are more concerned with life-styles than with life work. Many of those whom FORTUNE recently called "forerunners" (perhaps 40% of all students) have apparently soured on individualism. They put their trust in "community," the keenly emotional solidarity of the young-in song, dress and politics-against the alleged hostility of those in the outside world, especially older people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: COURAGE AND CONFUSION IN CHOOSING A CAREER | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...that as it may, most students who live in such dorms talk more about the social advantages of coed living than about sexual liberty. "The difference is in the atmosphere," says Doretha Freas-ier, a sophomore at the University of Chicago who lives in coed Woodward Court. "The mere fact that you can talk to a guy any time you want to means you're going to be better adjusted socially." Adds Stanford Senior Pat McMahon: "I think it encourages a more holistic relationship. It is very important that men and women see each other as more than bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colleges: Boys and Girls Together | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...chaplains themselves answer that in practice they are freer than many civilian ministers, who must often answer to hostile congregations if they take a radical stand on a matter of theology or politics. Navy Chaplain John A. Rohr argues that in a world where peace is still unattainable the fact of war's existence "must be borne even as we strive to abolish it." Christianity, he says, needs both kinds of ministers-the civilian picketing for peace and the chaplain serving "those brave young men who bear so disproportionate a burden of the sins of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clergy: Honest to God--Or Faithful to the Pentagon? | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

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