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...Catholicism, the Church of England may have been lured into slumber by the comforts of establishment, but it is still nonetheless an ineradicable part of the landscape: England without its "C. of E." is as unthinkable as Rome without a Pope. Seldom as Anglicans attend church services, they proudly troop through their historic cathedrals and abbeys on vacations and holidays, and the dazzling new cathedral at Coventry is one of the nation's best-attended show places...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anglicans: Empty Pews, Full Spirit | 8/16/1963 | See Source »

...troop thin-out in Central Europe. The U.S. points out that Soviet soldiers would withdraw only a few hundred miles to their own territory while U.S. infantry would, in effect, have to be pulled back clear across the Atlantic. If the U.S. were to consider this idea at all, it would insist on compensation for the Soviet tactical advantage: the U.S. would want three or four Russian soldiers withdrawn for every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cold War: A New Temperature | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

...Yard to the Tercentenary Theatre under the direction of the University Marshal, J. Hampden Robb '21. Others in the procession, besides Faculty and officers of the University, candidates for degrees and alumni, will include governor Peabody '42, who will arrive in a horse and buggy escorted by a troop of National Lancers, Mayor Collins of Boston, a representative of Cambridge's Mayor Edward A. Crane '35, and other high officials of city and state...

Author: By Charles W. Bevard, | Title: College Gives 35 Summas; Only 20 Awarded in '62 | 6/12/1963 | See Source »

...airlift campaign, which had been the most effective offensive tactic against the Red guerrillas. Reluctantly the top U.S. military brass, which had long been skeptical that a helicopter could ever be a deadly offensive weapon, threw the newly-arrived Hueys into combat. Their mission: to escort and protect the troop-carrying copters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Makeshift Killers | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

...official military designation is Utility Tactical Transport Company) have been killed in combat, and 19 other members of the 113-man unit have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. Today U.S. military officials estimate that, although the Viet Cong has doubled its antiaircraft effort in the past year, the troop-carrying choppers are suffering 25% fewer hits than before the Hueys arrived on the Viet Nam scene. "The Hueys," says General Paul Harkins, the capable boss of the 14,000 U.S. advisers in South Viet Nam, "are the most essential unit in my command...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Makeshift Killers | 6/7/1963 | See Source »

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