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TRIALS OF O'BRIEN (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Roger (The Saint) Moore dates O'Brien's exwife, so O'Brien, the devil, sets him up as a pigeon to trap a killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Records, Cinema, Books: Oct. 15, 1965 | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

HELP! The Beatles-romping through poison gas, trap doors, flamethrowers and Buckingham Palace in a custom-made comedy that is long on sight gags, short on spontaneity, but just funny enough to keep the legend alive for another season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television, Records, Cinema, Books: Oct. 15, 1965 | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

With all this in mind it is possible to understand what Leary means when he says that psychedelics are not addictive and therefore less dangerous than alcohol, television, and higher education, all of which trap their true believers for a lifetime. Alcoholics, tube-boobs, and academicians do the same things all their lives, lumbering along, taking their game seriously. They have no way out of their chessboard of familiar concepts; they are addicted to it and addicts are always disillusioned, according to Leary. What is paradoxical, however--and Leary admits it--is that the human nervous system does...

Author: By Stephen Bello, | Title: Timothy Leary | 10/13/1965 | See Source »

...Washington, the wary reaction was that Castro might be playing another of his vicious little games-possibly putting out another ransom feeler, as he did with the Bay of Pigs prisoners, or possibly laying a trap to lure anti-Castro Cubans into exposing themselves. The U.S. called the offer "vague and ambiguous," said that Castro ought to use diplomatic channels for his offer, then later announced that it would accept any and all refugees if Castro was really serious about it. President Johnson even indicated that he would ask Congress for a $12.6 million appropriation to help get the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: The Petrified Forest | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...nabbed a Viet Cong, who fingered his home base in a nearby, boxlike valley. The 101st promptly ringed the Viet Cong on three sides of the valley, while 2nd Battalion Commander Colonel Wilfred Smith flew his three companies into the valley's portal by helicopter to close the trap. Trouble was, the dried-up quilt of rice paddies chosen for landing was hard by the V.C. camp. So the Screaming Eagles got the hot welcome of a Viet Cong battalion. "I've hit a buzz saw," Smith shouted into his radio as two choppers crashed. Smith lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: A Buzz Saw & A Bunker | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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