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Miles from Hanoi, another flyer tried to steer his parachute away from militiamen on the ground. Landing, he pulled out his pistol, but the North Vietnamese disarmed him, yelling, "Hands up! Hands up!" in English. The pilot, in Vietnamese, replied, "Toi xin hang [I surrender]." A third pilot only managed to smear his face with mud before he was captured. All told, the raids added 93 Americans to the list of missing and captured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Nixon's Blitz Leads Back to the Table | 1/8/1973 | See Source »

...drifting can be dangerous. In a narrow South Jersey channel, flanked by buildings and shadowed by vehicular traffic, the Joneses are nearly run down by the Kuddle-Toi, Too, an expanse of costly cabin cruiser operated by a corpulent man who apparently makes little distinction between yachting and barreling a large sedan. "We're gonna crush your crappy little boat!" cries the man's wife, as Mrs. Jones skillfully mars the word Kuddle with her paddle. In Delaware, Jones accidentally splits his wife's scalp with an anchor, and later nearly comes to grief against a drawbridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Merrily, Merrily | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

...Scherr, 53, is a lawyer who looks a lot like Allen Ginsberg and lays claim to being a Marxist. He owned the Steppenwolf bar in Berkeley for seven years but, so the story goes, the toi let in the men's room broke down one day in 1965, and rather than lay out the money to fix it, Max simply sold the place and started an underground newspaper, the Berkeley Barb. Max, it seems, has this thing about money; he refuses to spend it, on himself or anyone else. Featuring sex, rebellion and kinky ads, the Barb grew into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: The Tribe Is Restless | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...Tois toi dikaiois cho brachys nika megan." (A film showing of Aeschylus' "Oresteia" trilogy, in Greek with English narration, will take place this Thursday in Emerson Hall 210 at 7:30 p.m., and will be open to the public without charge...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: 'ORESTEIA' MOVIE COMING | 7/25/1967 | See Source »

...Tois toi dikaiois cho brachys mike megan...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Aeschylus' "Oresteia" | 8/16/1966 | See Source »

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