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Watery Trenches. Each day the patrols snaked into the rain forest clutched by the tendrils of vines, jabbed by thorns and needlebushes, wearily resting from time to time on the rotting jungle mat that teemed with ants, snakes, and scorpions. At night they placed their tents on the squishy forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Name of the Game Is Zap, Zap, Zap | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

First he had the beastly taste to turn the family's ancestral Woburn Abbey into a ducal Disneyland, with a zoo and souvenir stands. Now Britain's merrily huckstering peer, John, Duke of Bedford, 48, is peddling The Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, a 142...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 24, 1965 | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

What with the griping about Congressmen's children filling up summer Government jobs that might have gone to needy teenagers, Wisconsin's Senator Bill Proxmire, 49, did the simplest thing, wrote out checks totaling $1,806.80 as an "unconditional gift" to the U.S. Treasury to repay the wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 17, 1965 | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

When Tory Sir Harry Hylton-Foster agreed to be Speaker of the House of Commons last fall, his decision was a godsend to new Prime Minister Harold Wilson. It meant that the Labor government would not have to reduce its perilously small majority by filling the non-voting post with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: A Bit Much | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

Fire, Burn. Even before formation of the Mid-Western province in 1963, Owegbe was active as a kind of Ku Klux Klan to protect backward Beni tribesmen against the political inroads of their more aggressive, better educated neighbors, the Yorubas and the Ibos. When the pushy Ibos captured the post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nigeria: The Power of Juju | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

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