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...from the interconnection. That stroke-and the fact that it was a bright, clear day-saved the area from the near catastrophe that engulfed it on the night of Nov. 9, 1965, when 30 million people, over 80,000 sq. mi., spent up to twelve frantic hours in the dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The East: Darkness at Noon | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...Israeli troops captured the west bank of the Suez Canal, Jordan broke ranks and accepted the U.N. cease-fire that Moscow had been desperately trying to arrange for three days to save the Arabs from total disaster. The Egyptians fought one final tank battle at Suez in a frantic attempt to open a retreat path for what was left of their 80,000-man ground force in Sinai; then they, too, agreed to the ceasefire. Syria joined the chorus only a few hours later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Quickest War | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

After 15 weeks of frantic planning, Sandorff's 21 senior and graduate engineering students worked out a complex scheme that they-and their instructor -believe would save the world from collision with an onrushing asteroid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Systems Engineering: Avoiding an Asteroid | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

Anochie, angered by arguments which were to him irrevelant, said. "The big club (used by thoughtless whites) to smash such worthy endeavors (such as organizing the Negro potential) is always the same: frantic charges of 'reverse racism,' black supremacy,' and 'black paranoia.'... A sixteenth century English writer (Gerrard Winstanley) once said, 'Everyone talks of freedom, but there are few that act for freedom, and the actors for freedom are oppressed by the talkers and verbal professors of freedom.' However I am confident that the university and campus will come to realize what a meritorious group the AAAAS is, provided they...

Author: By Harold A. Mcdougall, | Title: AAAAS: Negro Students Test Liberalism | 6/15/1967 | See Source »

...eliminated, and the Negro, in the main, has been accepted on the same basis as other fighting men. As a result, the U.S. military establishment is now, ironically, the most democratic institution in American life, which accounts for the widespread support the military receives from the Negro community despite frantic efforts to subvert such support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 9, 1967 | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

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