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...attention of these little inspection trips because they anticipated that, invariably, it would bring them something better. Now they know it will bring them nothing but a few muttered apologies, and they reveal a palpable sense of abandonment. "Look at this! Look at this!" one father began to scream, his voice shaking with rage and emotion. "The water is filthy, the children have diarrhea, we have no food. Is this what America has left us?"As our Jeep pulled away from one group of people, a rock hit the windshield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: IS THIS WHAT AMERICA HAS LEFT? | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...lift the submarine from its grave, tugging hard to unstick the hull from the seabed. It was a nerve-racking process. The submarine's dead weight of at least 4,000 tons taxed even Glomar Explorer's powerful winches. The ship shuddered and reverberated with the protesting scream of straining electric engines and the scrape of taut steel cables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: The Great Submarine Snatch | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...wanderlust surges relentlessly through the veins. Like Shelley we yearn to be done with frozen leaves and turbulent skies and shout forth a panegyric to the incipient balmy days of a more gentle season. But alas, the streets bear the scars of the ravages of snowstorms, the trees scream in their gnarled bareness, the clouds continue to obscure the fulgent sunshine. Cambridge does not easily shake the remnants of its most brutal season. We become like Gide's immoralist, neglecting our careers, our families, and our lovers in a hedonistic hearkening to a brighter clime and sunnier shore, where mind...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: The Wrongs of Spring | 3/27/1975 | See Source »

Robert Banker '56, who has organized the club's boxing night since it started in 1968, said "I guest the fun is seeing many of these men come and yell and scream...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Smith Tops Alicea in Harvard Club Tilt | 3/26/1975 | See Source »

...airport, which is hit almost daily, American-owned DC-8s scream down the runway hourly and trundle up in front of the small passenger terminal, where they disgorge up to 45 tons of ammunition each. Across the field, camouflaged American C-130s buzz in and out every 20 minutes with loads of ammunition, while little Cambodian air force two-seater T-28s dart in and out from their bombing runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMBODIA: The War: Immediate, Palpable, Personal | 3/3/1975 | See Source »

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