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...mortar batteries, rockets, antiaircraft guns and heavy 152-mm. howitzers with an elevenmile range. The buildup-biggest in the DMZ since the 1968 bombing halt-might have been a reaction to allied hints that an invasion of North Viet Nam might be attempted if Lam Son were to turn sour. But some U.S. officers, fearful that it foreshadowed a period of relentless Communist shelling and possibly a fullblown invasion, rushed 7,000 additional American troops to the area. At week's end there were 20,000 ARVN and 15,000 U.S. troops just below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDOCHINA: The Invasion Ends | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

Star-Schlock. Rosewater feels the same way when he is sober, although he finds it necessary to note that most science-fiction writers can't write "for sour apples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Future Grok | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

...sources are developed, the nation's power plants demand the cheap coal that stripping can provide. Other critics urge that mined-out areas become garbage dumps for nearby cities which have a pressing need for disposal grounds. The rationale is that decomposing organic matter would eventually enrich the sour earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Price of Strip Mining | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

Still, many women living at Harvard report that they would be more comfortable with a larger number of women in the Houses. Others have sour opinions because of the original CHUL coresidency plan which seemed to carelessly sprinkle women throughout the House in order to please...

Author: By Linda E. Berkeley, | Title: Women in the UniversityThe Selling of Radcliffe: Cheap at Twice the Price | 3/17/1971 | See Source »

...with horns on the brain, Brian Bedford is a comic marvel. His face is an ever-changing panorama of unholy glee, bottomless despair, and a sour-pickle sneer. With an unbroken, intuitive authority, he leads the way to the vital intersection of Molière's genius, the place where la vie tragique meets la vie triviale. The ultimate humanity of Molière is that he can make an audience laugh at a man's folly, then make the audience feel how that foolish man suffers, and finally make us all realize just who that suffering fool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Laughing Cure | 3/1/1971 | See Source »

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