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During the late '60s, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt Jr. commanded the "brown-water navy," the fleet of small craft that patrolled the rivers and canals of South Viet Nam. He did such a good job that in 1970 he was appointed chief of operations for the entire U.S. Navy. Zumwalt was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A War Without End My Father, My Son | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

Such people -- and these are the people going around spraying airliners and synagogues with bullets -- will not retire even if Israel makes the most extreme concession and gives up the West Bank in favor of a Palestinian state. What Abu Nidal and Abu Abbas and indeed every Palestinian guerrilla group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Terror and Peace: the Root Cause Fallacy | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

While the rest of Harvard was starting to quiver with pre-350th birthday preparations, Bok spent one of his last weeks in August rafting down the Colorado River with his three children: Hilary, 27, Victoria, 24, and Thomas, 17. (His wife Sissela, a professor of philosophy at Brandeis and author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Setting All the Parts in Harmony | 9/8/1986 | See Source »

Lauren is acutely profit conscious. But since the only shareholders he needs to please are himself and Strom, he has leeway to experiment and to pursue a sometimes whimsical strategy. "I don't have a master plan," he says. "It gets more complicated as it grows." So far, Lauren's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling a Dream of Elegance and the Good Life | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

This season's most promising performer is a spotted tan gilt named Huckleberry Hog, who has a good shot at breaking the record: 4.48 sec. on the flat, held by a gilt named American Made. But even if she sizzles to a new speed record and is enshrined in Heinold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Porcine Pacers: Pig races pack 'em in | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

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