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...policemen not only work together but spend their off-duty time together, and police families often have little social life outside the police-family orbit. "Other people generally don't like police," explains Christos Kasaras, a patrolman on Manhattan's West Side. The result is a kind of inbreed ing that tends to make police the victims of their own stereotypes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: POLICE: THE THIN BLUE LINE | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

Loincloth & Bracelet. The Special Forces came to Viet Nam in 1961. Mov ing out into the jungled hinterland where Saigon exerted little or no control, they recruited irregular forces from minority groups-mostly Montagnard tribesmen-and established fortified base camps. From the beginning, the Americans, unlike the Vietnamese, got along well with the "Yards." It is not unusual to see a Special Forces man, decked out in loincloth and wearing the plain brass Montagnard bracelets that indicate blood brotherhood, attending a village party or a wedding as an honored guest. Though the Americans are a familiar sight in many villages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The Real Berets | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...people across the hall. All student activities are located in the same building and are given room numbers of three figures. Everyone goes through the same doors, rides the same elevators, and walks the same paths every day. This absence of individual identity leads to the mass of graffiti-ing all over campus and the disregard for the privacy of Grayson Kirk's cigars...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: Columbia Struck | 6/3/1968 | See Source »

...crimbflitteringish is arefloatsis ing-fallall! mil, shy milbrightlions my (hurl flicker handful in) dodging are shybrigHteyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Little Magazines | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Big Little Magazines | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

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