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...opened a barrage of almost daily attacks, concentrating on the rice-rich Mekong Delta south of Saigon. Boldly, an 800-man guerrilla force ambushed an infantry battalion near Mocay, shot down a T-28 fighter plane that swooped to the rescue -killing its American pilot-and simultaneously lobbed .81-mm. Red Chinese-made mortars into Mocay itself. But the government got in its own licks, several times counterattacked with refreshing aggressiveness. On a forested ridge near the Laotian border, troops overran a Viet Cong staging camp for infiltrators coming down the Ho Chi Minh trail from Laos, claimed 75 enemy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Death in the Delta, Intrigue in the Cafes | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

...Cosmic Ray, and Stone Sonata, but now the Ford Foundation has begun pouring tuns of gold on the happy heads of the people who made them. The foundation has decided to encourage the art of film as practiced by lone stylists whose pictures are usually brief, almost always 16-mm., and sometimes comprehensible only to themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In the Year of Our Ford | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

While police detectives braced his legs, Milwaukee Sentinel Photographer James G. Conklin, 40, leaned perilously out over the narrow building ledge and aimed his camera at the ground, seven stories below. Magnified by the camera's 300-mm. telescopic lens, the subject loomed sharp and clear. Conklin set his motorized shutter, and his camera caught twelve pictures of a thief in the act (see cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: To Catch a Thief | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

Daily Worker and the Militant, a Trotskyite paper. In March, "A. Hidell" bought a 6.5-mm. Mannlicher-Carcano rifle and telescopic sight from a Chicago mail-order house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Between Two Fires | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...land of typhoons and earth quakes, carrier pigeons have proved themselves reliable disaster insurance, able to get through with photographic negatives (up to 20 frames of 35 mm. film in a plastic capsule) where modern communications are blacked out. The pigeons broke into journalism when the great 1923 earthquake turned Tokyo into a shambles, forced editors to rely on a small signal-corps flock. The birds soon earned the title "Hato-san."* As recently as 1959, when a typhoon smashed the industrial city of Nagoya, leaving telephone and wirephoto services dead, the Nagoya Chubu Nippon used its 200 birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: No Sayonora for Hato-san | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

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