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Someone managed to radio a report of the attack to Georgetown. In a ragtag collection of airplanes, about 226 of Guyana's 1,800-man defense force flew in and scattered the rebels. Guyana's ambassador to Venezuela, Novelist E. A. Braithwaite, handed the foreign ministry in Caracas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guyana: Pocket Revolution | 1/17/1969 | See Source »

In the 23 years since the end of World War II, the Japanese have created an economic miracle out of the war time ruins. To some degree at least, this progress was made possible by the American military shield; Japan has needed to spend less than 1% of its gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Cutting Back the Bases | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

Musical Guerrillas. The most violent expression of revolutionary rock so far comes from a Detroit quintet called the MC (for Motor City) 5. After months of rumblings about them in the pop underground, they erupted at Manhattan's Fillmore East. Their performance was less revolutionary than revolting. While the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock: The Revolutionary Hype | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

EVERY industry has its own sensitive indicators, be they birth rates, bank rates or crop forecasts. The FBI's recent report that the U.S. crime rate is running a brisk 19% ahead of 1967 came as no surprise to one industry whose prosperity is judged by such statistics. Crime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: MAKING CRIME PAY | 1/3/1969 | See Source »

Peering into the night skies, astronomers find their view obscured by the ever-present veil of the earth's atmosphere. Swirling air currents blur the images of stars and planets. Scattered light and auroras in the atmosphere blot out faint stars. The thick blanket of air soaks up ultraviolet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Observatory in the Sky | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

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