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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessarily derogatory to say that Ambassador Thai talks out of both sides of his mouth. His job requires it, and Thai is good at his job. He can field a question about President Johnson's motivation, smile knowingly, and toss off a quip to satisfy his interrogator without telling him a thing. When pressed to answer an embarrassing question, he'll promise "to come back to that point later," but never get around...

Author: By Geoffrey L. Thomas, | Title: Vu Van Thai | 3/24/1966 | See Source »

What would you do, goes one of the favorite guessing games in Viet Nam, if you were running the Viet Cong? Launch a wholesale terror campaign? Focus on winning the peasants? Toss in the towel and try Laos? Some answers came last week from an unexpected but authoritative source: the Communists themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Dos & Don'ts | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...Dietz asks the Appeals Board to toss the Coop out of the first half of the annex because it has no temporary loading dock. The Coop shows pictures of a truck unloading on a wooden platform next to the building. Dietz' attorney claims that the photographs were staged and that the platform is usually blocked. The Coop denies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHRONOLOGY | 2/23/1966 | See Source »

Wilson also gained a third place in the shot, behind Eli Bob Greenlee's 52 ft, 3 1/2 in and teammate Carter Lord's strong 51 ft, in toss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Topple Princeton, Yale In Big Three Championship Meet | 2/21/1966 | See Source »

Russia is a Cerberus that grows more than 3,000,000 heads a year, many of them hungry for truth. The Soviet leaders appease this appetite with huge helpings of technological and scientific fact, but when it comes to political truth, they either stonily ignore the demand or cynically toss a sop to Cerberus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Sop to Cerberus | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

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