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...Quang Tin battle was the biggest in a week of continued enemy pressure and Allied counterthrust in the five northernmost provinces of South Viet Nam that comprise I Corps. After the Reds struck in a brief terror attack on the ancient imperial capital of Hue, U.S. Marines from the Seventh Fleet launched Operation Bear Bite. A force of some 2,000 leathernecks streamed ashore 21 miles northeast of Hue in an amphibious and heliborne assault. Sporadic fighting also broke out along the Demilitarized Zone, where the Marines discovered and destroyed no fewer than 77 Communist bunkers, stacked with food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Night Assault | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

Even after Mariner 2 determined in 1962 that the surface temperature of Venus was about 800° F., some scientists expressed the hope that life might exist on its cooler mountaintops or among the water clouds and ice crystals believed to exist in the Venusian atmosphere. But the yellow hue of Venusian clouds has long caused University of Arizona Astronomer Gerard Kuiper, 61, to doubt that they were composed of water in any form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Venus Is Dead, & Too Hot | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

...gaudily capped in red berets. When the battle was over, 92 enemy dead were found. To the east, U.S. Marines launched Operation Union City II south of Danang and killed 172 Red soldiers in the first day's fighting, while a South Vietnamese force swept the environs of Hue, the ancient imperial city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Belfries & Red Berets | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...multiply the number of U.S. dead by ten or 15 in order to please their bosses up North. The Communists have massed troops in unusually large numbers in and around the Demilitarized Zone, have directly threatened the provincial capital of Quang Tri and even the ancient Vietnamese capital of Hue 32 miles to the south. In an area where their strength is great, they gambled on a set battle with the U.S. Marines. Last week they came off second best in one of the war's bloodiest series of battles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Arrow of Death | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

...arteries, direct sunlight can do you nothing but harm.† Human beings would be healthy if they lived inside a building or cave all the time and never went out in the sun." They would also, of course, be pallid, and in today's civilization a pasty hue is no sign of beauty. Aware of that, Dr. Wilson suggests use of an "instant tan" product. For those who insist on the sun, he advises the most ray-opaque lotions available...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dermatology: Sun Ban | 5/12/1967 | See Source »

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