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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the shooting of Nguyen Van Minh, Vietnamese police and American M.P.s quickly halted the truck involved. Pfc. Matias Yzaguirre Jr., 22, a Mexican American from Brownsville, Texas, was sent to the Danang stockade, charged with negligent homicide. Shock among Minh's schoolmates turned to outrage when U.S. officials insisted that the shooting had been accidental. "It was no accident," said a witness. "He wanted to shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Bad Yankee Go Home | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...Business. When U. Mass. Provost (now Chancellor) Oswald Tippo approached him about heading the ed school, Allen boldly "asked for everything." To his shock, he got virtual carte blanche−and has used it with characteristic gusto. Draping his portly form in custom-tailored African shirts and guzzling low-calorie colas, Dean Allen first set out to whip up a graduate school. Foundations and the Federal Government agreed with his goal, came up with nearly $4,000,000. Allen raised faculty salaries to as much as $33,000 a year, signed on historians and economists as well as education professors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Frenzy at U. Mass. | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...Future Shock, Toffler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction Best Sellers: Dec. 21, 1970 | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...Gaulle really enough of a tribute? Why not go all out and make the late general a saint? The idea was suggested by a German journalist and backed up by no less a dignitary than the Vatican's Jean Cardinal Danielou, who said that the idea "does not shock me." How about the miracles normally required for canonization? Merely an innovation of modern times, said Danielou. More important was the ability "to practice virtues with a certain degree of heroism." In any case there was no particular hurry. Joan of Arc did not make it for 489 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 14, 1970 | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...Incarnation. During the group sessions, however, camaraderie grows. A cheerful, plump woman reports suffering a five-stitch scalp cut earlier in the day but finding she did not need a cigarette to ease the shock. We applaud. Arthur, however, still craves a smoke. "I started to eat a carnation at our table," he says, "and it was better than spinach. But I know that if I really get to like them, Ralph Nader will come out next day and tell me that carnations are injurious to my health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Kicking the Habit | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

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