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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the threat of assassination is not always a weapon against the Thais. Last June, when 70 terrorists invaded tiny Ban Khaw Noi and called everyone out for a propaganda session, Local Teacher Khun Thit holed up in his hut with a pistol. He pumped his only two bullets into two terrorists who came after him. Then he grabbed a submachine gun from one of his victims, rolled himself up in a mattress and began blasting away when the rest of the band tried to take him. Two hours, 400 rounds and several grenades later, when the noise finally brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thailand: Slap Against the Reds | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...testimony, Susan claimed that McNeill had caressed her five times during the 45-minute session. At one point, she said, "Mr. McNeill placed his hands on my breasts and squeezed them!" Later, one of Susan's close friends and classmates, Stephanie Smith, testified to a similar incident. Assigned to tutor her at home after she had broken a hip in an auto accident, McNeill "put his hands on my breast and said, 'Where did you get these secondary sex characteristics?' " Backing up her daughter's testimony, Mrs. George Schaffner, whose husband is an accountant, explained that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: A Question of Conduct | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...test that she pounded her desk, cried "I hate you!," later called him "a son of a bitch" and talked about "dirty black niggers." His lawyers raised the question of why she had kept still for 45 minutes without trying to protest-although a class was in session in an adjoining room, the doors were unlocked, and the interior of McNeill's office was visible through three door windows. The lawyers also wanted to know why Stephanie Smith had waited from June 13, when she claims to have been abused, until Aug. 2 to report the offense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: A Question of Conduct | 9/15/1967 | See Source »

...considerably more detailed and accurate than the more completely filled-in Russian map. And even while the meeting was in session, word was received that the excellent photographs returned by Orbiter 5 would improve upon Zond 3's performance and eliminate most of the unmapped areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astronomy: Delayed Christening | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...numbers custom-tooled by Gordy's own staff of songwriters and producers, led by the gifted team of Brian and Eddie Holland and Lament Dozier (Stop in the Name of Love, Baby Love). Where many recording companies market disks put together by outside producers, Motown carefully directs every session, with Gordy listening to each song before it is released and sometimes demanding a dozen or more retakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Records: Heavyweight Featherweight | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

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