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...Case Is Hopeless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 24, 1966 | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...what was clearly one of the major battles for U.S. forces to date, Bill Carpenter was at the head of a company that was pinned down and heavily outnumbered by a North Vietnamese regiment. After calmly reviewing what seemed to be a hopeless situation, he radioed his base camp for bombing and napalm strikes: "Put it right on top of me. We might as well take some of them with us." At week's end Carpenter and other haggard survivors miraculously fought their way out of the trap-bringing their dead and wounded with them. Said Carpenter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Once & Future Hero | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...project will take away from the school part of the responsibility for teaching humanities and social sciences. "As total institutions," Oliver said, "secondary schools are hopeless. We can leave them the things they teach best--math and science. But it's time we began to let general education wither...

Author: By Robert A. Rafaky, | Title: Ed School's 'Shadow Faculty': Thirty Researchers Who Are--More or Less--Revolutionaries | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

According to Oliver, the project will be important because it will take away from the school part of the responsibility for teaching humanities and social sciences. "As total institutions," Oliver said, "secondary schools are hopeless. We can leave them the things they teach best--math and science. But it's time we began to let general education wither away...

Author: By Robert A. Rafaky, | Title: Ed School's 'Shadow Faculty': Thirty Researchers Who Are--More or Less--Revolutionaries | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

...frustrations; the jeers would come from visiting columnists, Congressmen and assorted other critics, all convinced that they know more than the man on the scene. Says CBS's Dan Rather: "It's the only story I've been on in my life where I get a hopeless feeling when I try to get on top of things. It's so many-faceted that nobody can really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign Correspondents: Covering Viet Nam: | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

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