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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from letters that continued to flood newspapers and TV stations, many around the country agreed. Most of the evidence, which continued to come in during the week, pointed the other way. The Medical Committee for Human Rights said that more than 1,000 civilians required medical treatment as a result of police action. The city report had counted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: Daley's Defense | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...sprout in the rugged kingdom of Afghanistan. So have the weeds. After 2,500 years of inertia, a startling 13-year spurt of modernization has made itself felt across much of the Texas-sized nation. The beginnings of progress have also brought new problems, political and economic. As a result, Afghanistan's course seems far less clear today than it did a few years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afghanistan: History v. Progress | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

...offer neat wrap-ups of complex events." Yet, "the world makes all sorts of demands the television set never told you about, such as study, patience, hard work, and a long apprenticeship in a trade or profession, before you may enjoy what the world has to offer." As a result, the kids, "missing the pleasant fantasies they enjoyed when they turned on the set, 'turn on' in other ways . . . passively waiting for something beautiful to happen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Audience: Kids Turning On | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...Riencourt has one resounding theme: "The major development of our time is the gradual and partly unconscious establishment of the American empire." It will appear to future historians, he dares to predict, as the end result of "everything that happened in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Yankees as Caesars | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

Meanwhile, those "unconscious" imperialists, the American Presidents, were exercising the appropriate "Caesarian powers," including the right to initiate wars without asking Congress. As a result, believes De Riencourt, "the United States has gradually become a garrison state." Counting "Pentagon satellite military establishments" in Europe, Latin America and the Far East, De Riencourt reckons that the U.S. has the biggest army, by "relative size," since Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Yankees as Caesars | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

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