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...which there is no front and no enemy lines, the capital of South Viet Nam is right in the middle of the battle -a garrison without walls in a countryside alive with enemy bands. Says Air Force Lieut. Colonel Grove Johnson, head of U.S. security at the huge Tan Son Nhut airport: "It's like defending a stockade in the days of the Indian wars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Securing Saigon | 1/20/1967 | See Source »

...detail, they left little doubt that the height of the battle was approaching between Mao and his hand-picked heir, Marshal Lin Piao, on the one hand, and the more pragmatic and liberal Politburo faction headed by Chinese President Liu Shao-chi on the other. The Yugoslav news agency Tan-yug reported that Peking was "flooded with posters and cartoons of a sinister nature, depicting numerous Chinese leaders"-and not forgetting to include Lyndon Johnson, whose caricature was attacked by children bearing spears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Dance of the Scorpion | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...this so attractive that it rotated the 288 jobs among some 2,000 of its members. And when the temporary, four-month contracts expired, the union decided that Newport was far too good a thing to let go. As the Dock Workers Union's Secretary-General Nguyen Hoang Tan put it: "The Saigon River ports belong to the Vietnamese dockers. It has always been so, under the French and also the Japanese. Why should the Americans be able to change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: On the Waterfront | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

Almost daily, the President hopped into his tan station wagon and drove around the 400-acre L.B.J. Ranch to gaze at his menagerie of wild deer, turkeys, antelope and buffalo. In his paneled office, Lady Bird put up a 6-ft.-high balsam tree, speckled with colored lights and topped with a golden-haired angel in a blue brocade dress. The menu for Christmas dinner called for turkey, corn-bread dressing, string beans with almonds, sweet potatoes with marshmallow topping, rolls, cranberry salad, ambrosia and angel-food cake. The family celebrated Lady Bird's 54th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Grumblings at the Ranch | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...they passed a strict ordinance designed to preserve their traditional pueblo Indian and Spanish colonial styles. Even gas stations and supermarkets are now required to have narrow windows, flat roofs, and adobe-tan-colored walls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architecture: Capitol in the Round | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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