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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such is early mathematics, Communist style. By contrast, the South Vietnamese government takes the conventional approach. Sample problem from a government textbook for children of a comparable age: "Mother came back from the market. She gave Hai two oranges, gave Ba three and saved five for Daddy. How many oranges did she have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: 2 Henchmen + 4 Puppets = 6 Monsters | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...would be made to appear." That sounded ominous, and everybody grew more worried when Williams disappeared from his Manhattan apartment. Reporters finally located him last week at his house in Key West, refusing to talk about anything. "He must have had a bad scare," judged Dakin. Tennessee's mother, Mrs. Edwina Williams, 86, took the whole thing with a shrug: "My son has done such things before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 12, 1968 | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...Budget Bureau, devised his own quiz. Wryly known as the "Soul Folk Chitlings Test," it is cast with a black, rather than a white, bias. Some of his 30 black imponderables prove extremely difficult for Whitey: 1) Whom did "Stagger Lee" kill (in the famous blues legend)? a) His mother, b) Frankie, c) Johnny, d) His girl friend, e) Billy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: BLACK QUESTIONS FOR WHITEY | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Walker and Marks were denied a petition for habeas corpus last month, but they remain loyal to Synanon and still refuse to be tested. "I need Synanon," says Alyce Mae, the mother of two children. Adds Richie, a jazz musician: "If I just went back on the street, I'd be back on drugs in no time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: NARCOTICS: Testing Synanon | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

Only in the novel's apocalyptic last scene, in which he finds his artistic torch, does Author Weiss seem to recapture a literary fire. His hero's marriage is a failure, his two-year-old daughter has been deposited with his mother. His long way's journey toward his own identity leads him to Paris. And there one day, sitting in a wicker chair in a Left Bank cafe, he suddenly realizes that he can escape his perennial sense of personal and artistic vagabondage. By accepting the German language, "the language I had learned at the beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How to Stop Being a Vagabond | 7/5/1968 | See Source »

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