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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many a corporate chairman has long felt like doing: he ordered Gilbert and Mrs. Soss to leave the meeting. Gilbert left with a push, but a Pinkerton guard had to carry Wilma out. Having a grand time in the limelight, where all could see her two-piece "Early Bird outfit" of an off-white tunic and matching knee breeches, she kicked her high boots in the air, waved her straw "space hat" at the crowd. Screaming "A. T. & T. ism," she threatened: "I'm going to sue the corporation." As she disappeared, the crowd cheered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Annual Meetings: Into Orbit & Out of Order | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...floor-mounted gearshifts and even a big, 8-cylinder engine that is definitely not economical. The fastback Marlin, introduced last March, is as sporty a car as Detroit manufactures today; it was rushed onto the showroom floors to give the public the message that American can be a swinging outfit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: A better way | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...guys just happened to come in at a proper angle, and he caught a glimpse of something under the trees. He drew fire, so we all went to have a look." It was quite a look: the area was alive with Viet Cong. Hunt and his outfit marked the targets with smoke rockets and called in Vietnamese and American planes, which destroyed 21 Viet Cong trucks, five large ammunition dumps, 43 Communist-occupied houses, and an estimated 2,000 tons of rice-"enough to feed 25,000 guerrillas for a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: The Fighting American | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

CORPORAL GERALD NECAISE, 20, of New Orleans, is a squad leader in the 8,400-man 9th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, most of which is assigned to help protect the Danang airfield. The marines are perhaps the most frustrated outfit in South Viet Nam: eager for battle, they are restricted to patrolling the Danang perimeter, and so far they have not been blooded. Last week, returning from an uneventful patrol, Necaise expressed his impatience. "Look at it this way," he said. "If you're in the engineers, you train to build roads and you get a chance to build roads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: The Fighting American | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

...despite the fact that it is often blamed when it should not be, and almost never praised when it should be, there is little doubt that the CIA needs an expert administrative hand at its helm. "If the admiral doesn't apply his PERT to this outfit," one CIA official said last week, "we'll be drowned in data." The agency receives an average of 2,000 top-secret messages every 24 hours from all over the globe. It has a card-file index of more than 50 million documents. Such sophisticated devices as long-range cameras, sensitive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A PERT Man for the CIA | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

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