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...adjacent Tan Son Nhut airbase, mortars and rockets damaged planes and set fire to the base chapel; other aircraft were reported hit at nearby Bien Hoa. Fires also flared around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Bracing for More | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

...Cambridge draft board doesn't have an easy time filling its monthly quotas. It's a rather sad place. The pale tan walls and the green filing cabinets lined up in careful rows look at you with a kind of quiet sterility. The wooden bench sitting outside the room, just sitting and waiting, doesn't help...

Author: By Adele M. Rosen, | Title: The Selective Service System | 2/12/1968 | See Source »

...enemy force of at least 700 men tackled the city's most vital military target: Tan Son Nhut airstrip and its adjoining MACV compound housing Westmoreland's headquarters and the 7th Air Force Command Center, the nerve centers of U.S. command in the war. The Communists breached the immediate base perimeter, slipping past some 150 outposts without a shot being fired, and got within 1,000 feet of the runways before they were halted in eight hours of bloody hand-to-hand combat. All told, the Communists attacked from 18 different points around Tan Son Nhut, getting close enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The General's Gamble | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...week's end, Saigon was still a city shuddering with the roar of bombs and the splat of bullets. After five days of fighting, the stubborn attackers of Tan Son Nhut airstrip were still entrenched near the field as F-100 jets, Skyraiders and helicopters blasted at their positions. Fighting flared in one part of the city and, when troops moved in with air support to damp it down, broke out in another area. Though the allies claimed 2,000 enemy dead in the city, the U.S. command was worried by the presence of a reserve unit of some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The General's Gamble | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...girl can do almost anything she really wants to, don't you agree? She can tan instead of burn, look sexy but also look like a lady, have a job that PAYS because she's smart and still stay fascinating to men. I've done all these things, and thank goodness there's one magazine that seems to understand me-the girl who wants everything out of life. 1 guess you could say I'm That Cosmopolitan Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Big Sister | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

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