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...last week a familiar message came over the field radio in Kelly's headquarters; five Vietnamese and one American soldier had been shot in a fire fight near Cantho. As usual, Madman Kelly led the flight. As his "Huey" fluttered loudly into the paddyfield, the big red crosses on its side shone brightly in the high noon sun. Twenty feet away, the survivors and the wounded lay pinned down in their foxholes as Viet Cong ground fire crackled from a nearby wood line. So Kelly calmly lifted the Huey off the ground and began to "walk" it sideways toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: One Mission Too Many | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

...enemy's heels that there was steaming food on the table. But the Reds had fled. Asked by his hand-wringing American adviser where the troops were that were supposed to have surrounded the camp, the Vietnamese officer in charge confessed that they had stopped in the last paddyfield to cook their own breakfast. Last week, in a Jeep bouncing along the dirt road outside Tanan in the Mekong Delta, a young U.S. Army captain cheerfully explained to TIME Correspondent Frank McCulloch how a new "clear and hold" operation was to sweep his area clean of Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Frustrated but Firm | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

Personally, John Kenneth Galbraith is almost as popular in India as Ed Reischauer in Japan. Natural American Galbraith has shucked business suits and neckties for casual sports shirts and white-hunter-style bush jackets. In his eagerness to talk to villagers in the middle of a paddyfield, he has even shucked his shoes. One of Galbraith's minor but highly welcome public relations gestures was to wheedle a $15,000 Ford Foundation grant so that he could distribute U.S. books to Indians. Jawaharlal Nehru took a bundle on his last vacation, reported that he was particularly tickled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Natural Americans | 1/12/1962 | See Source »

Seeing the picture you had [Dec. 23] of the Holt family and the eight Korean-G.I. children they had adopted was a highlight for me in the holiday season. One of those eight was a little girl that I picked up from the mud of a paddyfield in Korea 2½ years ago. She was frightened and ostracized by the other village children. I came in contact with Mr. Holt on his first trip to Korea, and this little girl was one of the first he adopted; I shall always remember him for his genuine love and concern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

Atherosclerosis is the bugbear. It appears to attack the coronary arteries with especial frequency. And strangely, it is a disease of successful civilization and high living. It is far commoner in the U.S., Britain, Sweden and Denmark than among the poor peasants of Sardinia and southern Italy, the paddyfield workers of China and Japan, or Bantu tribesmen. It is commoner among men than among pre-menopausal women; after the menopause, women gradually become as susceptible as men, though it takes them until age 80 to catch up. Racial origin, body build, smoking habits and the amount of physical activity also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Specialized Nubbin | 10/31/1955 | See Source »

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