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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cover. Cartoon by Patrick Bruce Oliphant, whose work has often appeared in TIME but never before as a cover. In the tracing above, the first figure from the left (1) is Defense Secretary Melvin Laird clutching his hard-won ABM, while a general (2) expresses the Pentagon's pleasure. The cigarette-puffing baker (3) is Congress, serving up half a loaf of surtax. Above and to the right stands a G.I. (4) in the process of dropping his equipment into the arms of South Viet Nam's President Thieu (5). Below, Rumania's President Ceausescu (6) listens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 15, 1969 | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...Australian who left the Adelaide Advertiser for the Denver Post in 1964, Oliphant, 34, won a 1967 Pulitzer Prize for the excellence of his cartoons. One he likes best is a prophetic drawing done in 1958, which shows a crew of Russian cosmonauts marching out of a spaceship that has just landed on the moon. There to greet them stands a moon man-already brainwashed and thoroughly Americanized, as anyone can tell by his loud clothing, empty Coke bottle and breezy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 15, 1969 | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

Richard Nixon won an important, if narrow, victory. Unlike his Democratic predecessor, however, he had left Congress free to work its will. Nixon's manner in dealing with Congress is almost diffident, a throwback to the more passive presidency of the Eisenhower years, a direct contrast with the hot-breath methods of Lyndon Johnson. Nixon quietly lobbied dozens of Senators for Safeguard, but he never made it a party issue with Republicans. A month ago, Nixon met with five anti-ABM Republican Senators, but mentioned the issue only in passing. He understood their position, he said, and they were free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MOVING AHEAD, NIXON STYLE | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...transatlantic forays to stop the deterioration of U.S.-European relations that resulted from his blunt disregard of America's allies. By contrast, Nixon's recognition of common Atlantic interests has made relations between the U.S. and Europe better than they have been for years. The moon landing left Europeans spellbound, and Charles de Gaulle is no longer France; but some of the credit for improvement in the U.S.-European ambience this year is due to Nixon's February tour of NATO capitals and the sound advice of the President's White House foreign-policy adviser, Dr. Henry Kissinger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MOVING AHEAD, NIXON STYLE | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...BOUNDING IMAGE left his shadow on similar crowd last week...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: A Most Artful Dodger | 8/12/1969 | See Source »

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