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...Stunned by a crash landing that sheared the wings and tail from his Skyraider, Dengler stepped bleary-eyed into a world of muck, vines and violence that stood in odd contrast to his tidy, air-conditioned stateroom on the carrier Ranger. Abandoning his radio, .38-cal. pistol and dehydrated rations, Dengler ducked into the bush-but was jumped by Communist Pathet Lao guerrillas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Snakes & the Angel | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...band. They seemed to be under the command of Mao's longtime ghostwriter, Chen Pota, 62, now a leader of the Cultural Revolution. Chen's order: "You must temper yourselves by going among the masses and getting yourselves covered over and over again with muck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Nightmare Across the Land | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...second speech at Harvard came at the end of '64 when Malcolm X spoke on a panel with Martin L. Kilson and James Q. Wilson. "This was his muck-raker phase when he had just broken with the Black Muslims and was critical of everyone. Three months later, after another trip to Africa, Malcolm X returned to the Law School Forum to give a very introspective, self-critical speech...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Archie Epps | 4/27/1966 | See Source »

...enemies, among them that ingenious hunchback, Alexander Pope, whose ferociously witty verses proclaimed that Lady Mary was greedy, stingy, adulterous, Lesbian, syphilitic-and on top of that she wore a dirty smock. His attacks were sickeningly effective. In her 40s Lady Mary faced a painful prospect: her name was muck, her marriage a byword, her looks a fading memory. In moving lines she said farewell to the love she never found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lady Mary, Quite Contrary | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...life, often falling continuously for several days. Fishing becomes sporadic, and all but indoor workers are forced to sit and do little but watch the steady downpour turn the sand and dirt roads into rivers of mud which settle in low spots and are churned into black muck by traffic...

Author: By William Krohley, | Title: Community Development: Its Name May Be Mud | 3/3/1966 | See Source »

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