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...high winds and dirt. There was no place to sleep, let alone a place for the mechanics to work on our planes. Yet within a few hours, two huge geodesic domes were constructed that withstood all the elements as well as providing hangars for our planes as serviceable as pur own back at El Toro, thus proving that delicate, multimillion-dollar jets could operate out of primitive conditions like those in South Viet Nam, or anywhere else in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 17, 1964 | 1/17/1964 | See Source »

...nominate for the Man of the Year Lyndon B. Johnson. The man who is now pur President must face terrific odds. President Johnson is fortunately able to meet the challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 13, 1963 | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

...this year. Facing the prospect of a 10% to 20% drop in grain production, Moscow has clamped a news blackout on the subject. And apart from a routine one-line announcement of a new trade agreement, there was not one word about the huge $500 million pur chase of Canadian wheat and flour that the Kremlin hopes will make up much of the deficit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Trouble by the Ton | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

...every age carry guns and are capable of either murdering the government leaders -or over throwing the government if discontented. We regret that the American people are deprived of the facts of the socialist revolution in Cuba." Fidel Castro could not have said it better, but for his pur poses the propaganda was far more valuable, coming as it did from 58 youth ful, presumably open-minded American "students"* who have been making news for a month on a forbidden junket to Cuba. Last week, as the 58 prepared to return home, the U.S. prepared a welcome far hotter than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Castro's U.S. Guests | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

...search for agreement on the meaning of words is still important--the theory of special relativity, for example, grew from a sophisticated examination of the word simultaneous. Still, it is disheartening for the layman to watch sociologists chasing each other, like so many out Little Black Sambo's tree, pur-definition of social character...

Author: By Stephen F. Jencks, | Title: Riesman's Lonely Crowd Reevaluated After a Decade | 10/14/1961 | See Source »

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