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...without a physical examination; a member of a midwestern SDS chapter was re-classified by virtue of his membership; anti-war demonstrators at the University of Michigan have been re-classified; and the list could go on and can be expected to grow. Many guidelines have been thrown overboard by the SSS in its concern to "unify" the nation by squashing dissent...

Author: By Mark Gerzon, | Title: Is the Draft in the National Interest? | 1/18/1968 | See Source »

...mile-an-hour gusts, fireballs leaped to other fully loaded planes, trapping the pilots inside. As bombs and rockets exploded on the 1,000-ft.-long flight deck, the flames spread to the hangar deck far below. Engulfed by flames and smoke, crewmen and pilots tossed rubber rafts overboard, then plunged 90 feet into the waters below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Fire on the Forrestal | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

Racing across the flight deck, asbestos-coated fire crews sprayed everything in sight with foam and wrestled burning planes and 1,000-lb. bombs overboard. The destroyers Rupert us and Tucker steamed alongside with hoses trained upward. When the flames subsided, helicopters carried injured men off to nearby ships; one was the Oriskany, restored to Viet Nam service only two weeks earlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Fire on the Forrestal | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

Seconded Florida's James Haley: "Load a boat full of them and take them 500 miles out into the ocean and handcuff them, chain the anchor around their necks and throw them overboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: Burning Issue | 6/30/1967 | See Source »

Swans & Minarets. Artists and critics went overboard, comparing Queen's primitive tapestries to Klee, Picasso and the works of the Sienese quattrocento masters. Couture houses deluged her with scraps of silks and satins. Last month another 38 of her newer, brighter works went on display. Buyers snapped up all but ten that Kalman deliberately held back, and last week gallerygoers were still flocking to see the remaining few. Movie Actress Joanne Woodward became a Queen collector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crafts: Patchwork Prophecies | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

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