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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that anything can be gained by unilateral concessions, or that a show of weakness will make a negotiation go more swiftly, or even go at all." Addressing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Ball declared: "I find it both stupid and unattractive when a handful of our countrymen, who have read little history or have not understood what they have read, engage in public self-flagellation, declaring in sanctimonious tones that American policy is thoroughly in the wrong and that we as a nation are as brutal and viciously ambitious as the other side." The U.S., he said, could ill afford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE VERY FIRST STEP | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...where Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein used to hold court. Bo entertains other visitors, however, chain-smoking cigarettes and sipping pungent tea. His handsome wife, Pham Thi Ky, 43 (no kin to Saigon's Vice President), works in the mission's accounting department. Bo is widely read, an art lover, an ex-journalist, and his French is so polished that he once taught the language. He likes to quote Balzac, but his favorite aphorism, from an ancient Vietnamese tome, is: "Do not torment yourself if your virtues are not recognized, but pay more attention to not ignoring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MAI VAN BO: Revolutionary with Style | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

Robert Lowell has yet to learn that drama is more than the sound of one man talking. A poet by gift and craft, he is intelligent, passionate, articulate and astringent, but his dramatic imagination is embryonic. The result is that it is almost more rewarding to read his plays than see them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Endecott & the Red Cross | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

...tenths Gs during the first flight-enough to jar astronauts had they been aboard, but not enough to cause any serious difficulty. On the April shot, however, the Pogo Effect reached a force of seven-tenths of a G, enough vibration so that astronauts would not be able to read instruments or flick control switches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Getting Rid of Pogo | 5/10/1968 | See Source »

Martin Diskin, professor of Anthropology at M.I.T., read a petition of support that he said was signed by about 20 per cent of the M.I.T. faculty. Also distributed were statements of support by Putnam, Rogers G. Albritton, professor of Philosophy, and Stanley L. Cavell, Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value...

Author: By Glenn A. Padnick, | Title: Tutor Here Will Refuse His Induction | 5/9/1968 | See Source »

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