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Rebelling against Canadian efforts to make them pay taxes, relinquish their squatters' rights and send their children to school, the Freedomites embarked on a career of terrorism. During the past 40 years, they have been held accountable for 1,112 "depredations" ranging from blowing up power pylons and railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Taming the Spirit Wrestlers | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

Extra Rations. Besides attacking Vinh Hoa, the trainees learn to set up and patrol a defense perimeter, detect enemy booby traps and set out their own, establish listening posts; they spend 29 hours practicing night defense and are taught to catch wild animals to supplement their C rations. They also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Lessons of Vinh Hoa | 2/4/1966 | See Source »

It was an extraordinary factory that Venezuela's President Raul Leoni went out to visit 20 miles from Caracas. Arriving at the site carved out of a hillside, he was shown around a one-story building and cautioned to follow his guides closely: the area was infested with booby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: On with the War | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

This time Nero takes on the "whole, damn Federal Bureau of Investigation." He does it mostly because he is offered the biggest fee he has ever had, and this promises months and months of gourmandizing before he would need to go back to work. His client is a middle-aged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grand Race | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

The expanding fire cuts off firemen George Bennett, Joseph O'Hare, and John Rocca of the rescue squad from the hall and traps them at the window of 600. Clouds of smoke stream out of the windows, forcing the firemen out on the sixth-story window ledge. After a terrifying...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire Rages in Four Quincy Suites; Cause of $35,000 Blaze is Unknown | 11/2/1965 | See Source »

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