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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Communists died in the 25-minute running fire fight, but the other two escaped and were trailed northward by a growing force of G.I.s and South Koreans. Four helicopters flew low overhead, and their prop wash parted the reeds and kept the running North Koreans in sight. At midafternoon, exhausted and surrounded, each Communist pulled the pin from a grenade, fell upon it and committed suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: Flare-Up | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...years, however, The Netherlands is gripped by a Cabinet crisis that leaves the country rudderless for even longer than customary in Italy or pre-Gaullist France. In 1956 the governmental vacuum lasted for 122 days, while the old Cabinet carried on as caretaker. By last week, when Queen Juliana flew back from an Italian vacation to swear in new Prime Minister Victor Marijnen, the government had taken Dutch leave for 70 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: A Quiet Crisis | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

Vickie was clearly the prosecution's strongest witness until beautiful, blonde Sylvia Parker flew dramatically back from Italy to declare that Vickie's testimony was "a load of rubbish." The ex-mistress of a murdered Soho mobster, Sylvia testified that she had been living in Ward's apartment during the time when Vickie Barrett claimed to have been using it for assignations, and had never seen the prostitute there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Dial S for Squalor | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...Maybe the Movies." By week's end, the haggling over a Clay-Liston fight this fall was in full swing. Leaving his managers to work out the details, Cassius flew to New York to cut an album for Columbia Records and ponder the future. "Maybe after Liston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizefighting: The Man, the Rabbit & the Boy | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...around listening to records, complained loudly about their rooms, their food and, oddly enough, about the fact that the sun rose at 4 a.m. in Moscow. When a gift pair of track shoes from the Russians turned out to be the wrong kind for her event, one U.S. girl flew into a rage. "Don't they know I'm the cham. pion?" she screamed. Said a coach: "She found out later who the champion really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track & Field: The Meal at Moscow | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

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