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...Pathet Lao, and along the Ho Chi Minh trail, over which North Viet Nam feeds men and material into South Viet Nam (see map). Though aided by Laotian-flown propeller-driven T-28s, bases in South Viet Nam and elsewhere supplied U.S.-manned F-105 Thunderchiefs-one of the hottest, meanest items in the U.S. Air Force inventory, capable of lifting twenty-six 565-lb. bombs, almost twice the payload of a World War II B17. Of late, F-105s have been seen taking off from the sprawling airbase at Danang, South Viet Nam, at least half of them carrying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Quiet Escalation | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...also masters of all the subtle and not-so-subtle nuances of selling. They have discovered that goods sell fastest on the ends of counters or at stands in the middle of aisles, and fastest of all on the main floor; the store stocks only the hottest-selling impulse merchandise there, never its slow movers. Macy's also plays to the peculiar variances in consumer tastes in different parts of the U.S. Women's hats sell best in heavily Catholic neighborhoods (the women wear them to Mass). In New Haven, an Ivy League town, women go for tailored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Great Shopping Spree | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

...hottest issues around only two years ago, the bitter, all-but-forgotten TFX controversy, surfaced in a new form last week. What the fracas had boiled down to was that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Happy Landing | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

Citizens of Washington, D.C., who have long insisted that their summer climate is the world's hottest and their ter rain the flattest, are turning into skiers-three new ski shops have opened in downtown Washington this year. Within 80 miles of the city are: Shawneeland near Winchester, Va., which had 78 skiing days even in a winter when the natural snowfall was only half an inch; Skyline Ski Area at Washington, Va., which has three slopes, a T-bar lift and two rope tows; Oregon Ridge at Cockeysville, Md., with four tows and a 1,900-ft. double...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Where It Never Snowed Before | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

From the swamps of the Mekong Delta in the south to the North Vietnamese border, the Viet Cong launched one of their hottest offensives of the war. But even as more Vietnamese and American soldiers died in the unending nightmare struggle against the Communist guerrillas (nine deaths last week raised U.S. killed to 331), South Viet Nam's Buddhists announced their firm determination to destroy what little stability remains in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Fighting the Reds & the Bonzes | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

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