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Nobody Talked. Gradually the village was organized to protect itsef in a way that gave every villager a sense of participation. Old women went to work constructing punji sticks and booby traps for protective barriers around the village. Teen-age boys manned klaxon alarms. Should they sound at night, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Real Revolution | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

Sir: Though there is room for improvement in cars, there's not much that present models won't do in the hands of educated, courteous drivers on roads not cluttered with "booby traps," governed by horse-and-buggy regulations or filled with drivers in worn-out cars who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 8, 1966 | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

Complaints fell largely on deaf ears until one morning last December when Press Secretary Bill Moyers awoke to discover that two hulking rats had been caught in carefully baited traps in his Driskill room. All of a sudden, the press had a powerful convert to its cause. Moyers dispatched aides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: Good Times in Texas | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

Tunnel Rats." Since January, the team has been crawling through miles of mazes in the no man's land north of Saigon, braving booby traps and 100° temperatures. The Rats are an oddly equipped lot: they carry .22-cal. pistols (since .45s would shatter their eardrums at close...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Tunnel Rats | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

An invaluable harbinger whose projections vitally affect the entire U.S., the budget tells businessmen how much the Government may be expected to buy from them, taxpayers how much it will take from them to do the buying with. Within its labyrinth are enough booby traps to bedevil an army of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: READING THE BUDGET FOR FUN & PROFIT | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

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