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...night, the brooding hulk of Angkor Wat, the best known of the Khmer temples, was illuminated by candles, torches and floodlights. Strolling barefoot through the shadows, Jackie paused to run her fingers over the stone friezes that depicted the ancient battles between gods and men. From Angkor, the Kennedy party was to go to the port city of Sihanoukville, where Jacqueline was to rename a street "Avenue President Kennedy," and then back to Thailand, where she was to dine with the King and Queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americans Abroad: Frangipani & Bafflegab | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...demolition crew opened her sea cocks, the unmanned R.L.S. drifted out of sight before a brisk sou'easter and lingered for 16 hours instead of disappearing from radar screens in four hours, according to schedule. Where she finally came to rest, nobody is quite sure, and the waterlogged hulk of the R.L.S. is almost "transparent" to sonar blips used to locate submarines. But it seems likely that she lies in about 3,500 ft. of water-not deep enough to activate the fuses. Because the added pressure of a vessel passing overhead might detonate her, all shipping was ordered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The High Seas: Ahoy? | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...port of Elath has been Israel's main outlet for its growing export trade with Asia and East Africa. More important, it has become the port of entry for nearly 90% of the country's oil supplies. The Strait of Tiran, where coral reefs and the hulk of an ancient sunken ship make passage difficult under the best conditions, is easy for the Egyptians to control. Their announcement that they would turn back only ships bearing "strategic" goods to Israel was ambiguous enough to keep everybody guessing. At least three ships headed for the Jordanian port of Aqaba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Week When Talk Broke Out | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...with the publication of The Spirit, Harvey swings back where the action is, and joins the comic book Renaissance started by Marvel Comics with Captain America, The Hulk and Spiderman...

Author: By Tim Hunter, | Title: Return of the Spirit | 7/26/1966 | See Source »

...when I get alongside any business I go all of a tremble. I could do without smoking, but not without my liquor; that would be a sad impoverishment. It is extraordinary between night and morning that I should go like this-a bundle of old rags. I am a hulk-only breathing and excreting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Inside Winston Churchill | 5/6/1966 | See Source »

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