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Into the echoing marble depths of Peking's Great Hall of the People snaked line after line of restless Red Guards, still in the capital despite earlier orders to repair to their homes. The Great Hall is usually reserved for formal occasions: anti-imperialist operas, speeches by visiting Albanian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: The Third Man | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

The howling blast began Thursday morning. By midafternoon, Chicago's streets were clogged by wind-whipped snowdrifts and stalled autos. With traffic at a standstill and visibility at zero, tens of thousands of marooned workers had to spend the night in firehouses, hospitals and hotels. On the Calumet Expressway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Weather: The 24-Million-Ton Snow Job | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

7? for Ten Hours. The ritual has been going on for 32 years, making squat, swarthy Um Kalthoum, now a matron of 64, the most famous personality in the Arab world, better known than Nasser, especially among desert folk. When she appeared for the first time at Lebanon's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Nightingale of the Nile | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

"We left the Laotian airstrip at Pakse at 10:25 a.m., flying at 2,500 ft. Some 23 minutes later, my pilot announced: 'We are now at the Cambodian border.' Two minutes later we had located the trail. It snaked out of Cambodia, clear as a road map...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Southeast Asia: Hitting the Sihanouk Trail | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

Like some breed of superbadgers, the Reds dig round the clock. Even hardcore V.C. troopers often dig an hour each morning instead of doing calisthenics, but most of the excavation is done by three-man teams of "volunteers"-usually village boys and girls impressed for the duty-who are expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Tunnel Rats | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

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