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Jumping from U.S. helicopters in a clearing, 1,000 troops of South Viet Nam's crack "Red Lightning" division moved out against a battalion of 300 Communist Viet Cong guerrillas holed up in the village of Loc Ninh, deep in the Mekong Delta. Slogging through flooded paddyfields and reed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A Tale of Two Wars | 11/1/1963 | See Source »

LUTHER, by John Osborne, may not be everyone's conception of the towering Christian who started the Reformation, but it is a dynamic portrait of a fiery Promethean rebel. To see Albert Finney in Luther is to watch chained lightning hit the boards.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books, Best Reading, Best Sellers: Oct. 25, 1963 | 10/25/1963 | See Source »

The colleges have always had their ancient rivalries, marching bands and majorettes. But their battle cry was usually "three yards and a cloud of dust." The pros learned that bands can be hired, Copa girls can be taught to twirl a baton, and all rivalries get ancient after a while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: College Football: Jolly Roger | 10/18/1963 | See Source »

Occasionally, however, the director's use of photography and music becomes excessive. In the book a storm heralds the dance which culminates in Simon's murder; Golding describes the storm in a few terse paragraphs. In the movie, on the other hand, the storm crackles with so much sound and...

Author: By Heather J. Durrow, | Title: Lord of the Flies | 9/28/1963 | See Source »

He also lunched with nine Democratic Governors, accepted a keg of 46-year-old brandy from some New York doctors. Said Press Secretary Pierre Salinger: "We'll probably send it to the National Archives to age." Kennedy took in a show given by Caroline's kindergarten class and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Jack's Town | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

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