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FOR a while, Saigon looked like a city liberated. Vietnamese G.I.s guarding public buildings munched oranges, bananas and candy, showered on them by civilians grateful for the overthrow of the regime. Pretty girls embraced soldiers, draped tank turrets with garlands, scrambled squealing aboard army Jeeps. With the lifting of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: SOUTH VIET NAM: The New Regime | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

Then began a game of hide-and-seek with the Cuban navy. The refugees repainted the ship's grey deck a nonmilitary white, lettered a new name just below the mast. Up the mast they hoisted a homemade U.S. flag, stitched from fragments of blouses, skirts and underthings. It...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Safety in the Stars | 9/27/1963 | See Source »

Women clutched children to their skirts and men edged for cover, for all knew that Scandalous John was the meatiest waddie ever to ride out of the West-the 1960s West of tail-finned Cadillacs and fat farm subsidies, that is. Unhappily, his neighbors back home in New Mexico considered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Don Coyote | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

On the third day, India's Aruna Asaf Ali charged China with blocking all efforts to settle the Himalayan war with India. Out of their seats bounced two diminutive Chinese delegates who legged it to the platform in slit skirts to demand time for rebuttal, their heated words duly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Women's Club (Marxist Model) | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

Love of God and lust soon become hopelessly intermingled. Because Amaro is her spiritual guide as well as her lover, Amelia comes to exist in a kind of circu lar spiritual slavery. "Her judgments now came already formed from the priest's brain . . . She lived with her eyes on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bad Shepherd | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

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