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Put at Prek Phnou, which is only eight miles from Phnom-Penh, three T-28s dropped napalm on a paddyfield, causing orange flames to spurt across the open area. Three Cambodian youths in ragtag uniforms came trudging down a dirt road; one wore a purple bandanna around his head, another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Cambodia: Before the Fall | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

"My dad can whip your dad," Buzzy Jackson, 4, the son of Atlanta's 300-lb. Mayor Maynard Jackson, 36, must have told Muhammad Ibn Ali, 2. Obviously, Muhammad said that he would have to see about that and trotted home to tell Daddy to take on city hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 3, 1975 | 2/3/1975 | See Source »

Don't expect him to belt out anything as simple as "the Catholics hate the Protestants and the Protestants hate the Catholics." Between the surrealistic "song of trunks" and his ode to overdue library books, Misch seems about as far removed from the mainstream as a comedian can get--and...

Author: By Jim Cramer, | Title: Misch Masch | 12/12/1974 | See Source »

Customers can choose from among 1,000 trees, including some cherries, and receive redwood plaques with their names on them to hang on their rented trunks. They have full sitting, picking, picnicking and climbing rights, but are spared all the tiresome chores of spraying, propping and pruning. Moreover, as a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Rent-a-Tree | 6/24/1974 | See Source »

Swissair Flight 491 taxied to a stop at Zurich's Kloten Airport and Alexander Solzhenitsyn bounded up the steps of the plane with a bunch of red and white carnations. Minutes later he emerged, carrying in his arms his sons, Yermolai, 3, and Ignat, 17 months. Behind them came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 8, 1974 | 4/8/1974 | See Source »

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