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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...risk of U.S. lives; other potential targets, such as factories in downtown areas, are ruled out on humanitarian grounds. Of the major targets not yet hit, many will probably be bombed in time. The most likely remaining targets: the power station and railyards at Lao Cai, an important supply link with China; three MIG fields near Hanoi and one at Haiphong; and the dock facilities at Hon Gai, the only unscathed port...
...radio" [Aug. 25] has been "lifted" from its "ham" stage, .to its role as "key instrument in a mushrooming minute-man-like communications network!" TIME must know that since the 1920s the ham operator has provided emergency communications worldwide; has served in disaster areas, has often been the only link to scientific expeditions; has been active in space communications; has provided trained electronics personnel in wartime; has invested millions of dollars in communications equipment capable of operation independently of commercial power sources. Perhaps better to say that two-way radio has been lifted to the ham level of competence, dedication...
Call Me Richard. The "like father, like son" pattern goes only so far. Grizzled Lee Petty is a link to the old school of stock-car racers, the back-country leadfoots who learned their trade racing hot-rods around dusty country-fair horse tracks or outrunning revenooers on the South's mountainous "white-lightning trails." Richard Petty, who has been racing for money ever since he turned 21, belongs to the new school: the cool, engineer-minded youngsters who talk endlessly about "axle ratios" and "foot-pounds of torque" and bristle at any mention of the sport...
...flourished over the next few years, its worldwide assets mushrooming from Behn's original investment of $3,400,000 to $588 million by 1930. Over the years, the company provided South America with an early radio telephone link with Europe and North America, brought nationwide telephone dialing systems to Belgium and Switzerland, built Europe's longest coaxial-cable network. The company's foreign-based operations, however, have always left it vulnerable to worldwide upheavals. During World War II, for example, Behn succeeded in saving his corporation from disaster only by hurriedly negotiating the sale of several overseas...
...cares? "Sailing keeps you alive," says Chicago Psychiatrist Thaddeus Kostrubala, proud owner of a highly therapeutic 32-ft. cruising sloop. "It's a link with nature, with God, with the primeval. It touches your fantasy, your very wellspring. You have to read Conrad to really understand." For those who race, the motivation has a keener edge. "The sport is marvelously complex and terribly competitive," says Bill Parks. "It's a great challenge because there are so many variables: the wind, the weather, water conditions, other boats. You have to tune your boat, get the optimum performance...