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...this, Tom Hayden, is a recruiting-poster image of an American. Handsome and a rangy 6-ft. 3-in., Hayden wears the black uniform of his irregulars and drives around Phu Vinh in his Jeep, a Swedish-K submachine gun at his side and a .45-cal. pistol on his hip. He was a champion discus thrower at Long Beach College, later worked as an aerospace systems analyst and as a television actor (The Rounders, The Young Marrieds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Phu Vinh's Irregulars | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...Boston, because he hates the violence a dealer might possibly meet. Most of the hippies who sell drugs arm themselves with guns or knives, Avery said, although street fights are rare. He himself carries only a small silver cigar-like vial of tear gas that operates like a pistol...

Author: By Carol R. Sternhell, | Title: Boston Hips In The Off-Season | 10/23/1968 | See Source »

...presides while his sailors obliterate them with superior firepower. Babu, the last surviver, petitions Delano for mercy: "Yankee master, understand me. The future is with us." Over the protests of Cereno and Perkins ("We want to save someone") and while the lights dim to blackness, Delano empties his pistol into the black's body...

Author: By Jack Davis, | Title: Benito Cereno | 10/22/1968 | See Source »

After almost an hour of such persuasion, Dr. Pone got Mitchell to open the door a crack and accept a bottle of milk for the child. The psychology was working. Soon, Mitchell meekly opened the door of his cubicle, put his pistol in Pone's hand and emerged with the unharmed child in his arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Emergencies: Talking Out a Gunman | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

Gift of God. It all happens sooner now. Denny McLain is only 24. And not since blue-bearded Sal Maglie, who used to point his glove like a pistol at the batter's heart during his follow-through, has there been an angrier, more arrogant or more confident man on the mound. A chunky, 5-ft. 11-in. 190-pounder, McLain stands there stiff-backed, briefly fingering the resin bag before throwing it violently to the ground. Like a high-school wise guy, he tilts his cap so far down over his eyes that he has to cock his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: Tiger Untamed | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

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