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Memoirists are the musicians of history. Churchill's English eloquence thumped the drumhead of World War II into a heroic thunder with his wartime memoirs. Charles de Gaulle drew a dry bow over the taut strings of French postwar political chaos to produce his searching remembrance of things past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Well-Tempered Clavier | 5/27/1966 | See Source »

Spreading the Word. For their part, Fulbright and his antiwar coterie in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee continued their assault on the Administration. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, making his eighth appearance before the committee this year, proceeded to outline-in extensive detail-the legal basis for the U.S. commitment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: More Light, Less Heat | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

There is one small corner of war-torn South Viet Nam that has managed to maintain a separate peace. Cholon, the teeming Chinese quarter of Saigon, survives behind a Great Wall of indifference to the war-an indifference tempered only by the dictates of business. For it is from the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Cracks in the Great Wall | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Actually, Johnson could have tempered the current excesses by calling for higher taxes early this year-and then he could have rescinded the tax hike before November. Now it is probably too close to election for him to risk a tax increase, unless a major expansion in Viet Nam spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Rattles in the Engine | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

While his brother was hot-tempered and widely feared, new President Aref is a quiet, moderate man who has-if such a thing is possible in Iraq-practically no personal enemies. And his views are more easygoing, too. He feels that an all-out war on the Kurds-which Uqaili...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iraq: A Moderate Choice | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

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