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...Airborne did. In five days of bloody battle, U.S. fighter-bombers flew hundreds of sorties on the North Vietnamese L-shaped bunkers and tunnels dug into a hill covered with bamboo thicket. B-52 bombers hit the Red supply areas ten miles behind their redoubt, and the Airborne's artillery and mortars laid a curtain of steel down the hillside. Some U.S. units were hit hard by Giap's "human wave" mass attack: Company Commander William Carpenter (see THE NATION) heroically called down napalm strikes on his own position when Communist troops overran it. But at week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: The Red Napoleon | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Millions from a Wedge. Why should Evans, whose only auto experience was a summer job as a teen-ager in a Chevrolet axle plant, want to move into such a thicket of trouble? Part of the answer lies in family history. Evans' father, a Virginia lumber dealer, made millions by inventing and manufacturing a wooden wedge to secure the wheels of autos shipped by train. He founded Evans Products Co., broadened it into one of the country's big suppliers of plywood and railroad loading equipment. Six years ago, the family lost control to West Coast Industrialist Norton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Executives: American Motors' New Gospel | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

Though not always as aggressive as their comrades from the North, the Viet Cong guerrillas have been around for so long that they know every thicket and clump of elephant grass for miles around. Kinnard told of a conversation his men had monitored on the V.C. radio network. "All right," a Viet Cong company commander told a subordinate, "I want you to move down to that place where we laid an ambush for the French twelve years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Gen. Westmoreland, The Guardians at the Gate | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...year-old was walking down a path munching his B rations when a Viet Cong .50-cal. machine gun opened fire. Then, from all four sides and above, more machine guns, grenade launchers and snipers' rifles poured lead into the detachment, felling two G.I.s instantly. From a thicket where he had taken cover, Owen saw a flicker in the dense jungle opposite. "Then it moved again," he recalls. "I fired six shots. No more movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Honors Course in the Jungle | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

Summary of Sages. Such careful elaboration is necessary because the Talmud is an impenetrable thicket to anyone who has not spent years mastering its peculiar logic and organization. In essence, it is a baffling, cryptic summary of 800 years of dialogue among Jewish rabbis, debating and interpreting the meaning of God's word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jews: The Talmud in Paperback | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

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