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Cacophony of Protest. So cloaked and gagged is CIA's operation that a majority of Americans cannot recite even its most dramatic feats: its pinpoint reporting about day-by-day developments leading to the explosion of Red China's first nuclear device, its brilliant success in wiretapping Soviet army headquarters in East Berlin,* its nick-of-time revelation in 1962 that Russian missile bases were abuilding in Cuba. Even more mysterious to most Americans than CIA itself is its director, Richard McGarrah Helms, 53, an intense, controlled, self-effacing professional who holds one of the most delicate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: The Silent Service | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

...Central Highlands near the Cambodian border, elements of the U.S. 4th Infantry Division killed 225 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in a series of fulminating fire fights after the Reds had ambushed two of its companies. B-52 bombers from Guam plastered the Red positions with pinpoint accuracy, while the men of the 4th fought their way out of the hole. All told, it was one of the war's bloodiest weeks to date, and the blood was predominantly from the other side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Savage Week | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

Their main objective in writing to Rusk, the spokesman said, was to "pinpoint the areas of discussion," and "carry the dialogue one step further...

Author: By Richard Blumenthal, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Campus Leaders to Meet Rusk, Write Letters to Johnson, Rusk | 1/30/1967 | See Source »

...pinpoint their location, the scientists will move the spark chamber 35 feet away to another point within the pyramid and repeat the muon-recording process. The resulting images, combined stereoscopically with the originals, will precisely locate the hidden chambers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physics: Peering into the Pyramids | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

...other's temperaments. Preston hisses energy. He is as restless and agile as a panther. There is no repose in him, and the world is a woman to be won. Mary Martin exists to be wooed. She focuses light, as a magnifying glass brings the sun to a pinpoint of burning stillness. When she sings, one may imagine that the choir of the seraphim pauses to take rehearsal notes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Anniversary Schmalz | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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