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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simply asks that people use objective reasoning in criticizing the defense system, and not criticize the military on the emotional basis of reactionary discontent with the deplorable Viet Nam situation. The Defense Department surely needs much reform. But the reform must be in line with our responsibilities, which, I believe, was the major emphasis of Mr. Nixon's speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 27, 1969 | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...biological-warfare center at Fort Detrick, Md., the Army is experimenting with diseases that include undulant fever, coccidioidomycosis (a fungus infection), Rocky Mountain spotted fever and various strains of encephalitis, botulism, cholera, glanders and pneumonic plague. The major biological agents that the Army "keeps on the shelf" ready for use are anthrax, Q-fever, tularemia (rabbit fever) and psittacosis (parrot fever). Stored in sod-covered, concrete "igloos" at the Army's Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas, they are kept in constant cy cles of development, production, storage, elimination and replacement. The quantities now on hand are said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: THE DILEMMA OF CHEMICAL WARFARE | 6/27/1969 | See Source »

...Japanese use acid sprays to disintegrate trouser pockets. They're experts at removing tourists' cameras: just lift gently and slash the strap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Pickpocket Season | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...Arab pickpockets specialize in port cities. They use razors to slit back pockets of tourists in bars. They bump up against people brusquely, with no finesse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Pickpocket Season | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

...annotated. The continual restlessness of his great mind can be seen in the numerous sheets on which he had sketched, say, a gearwheel mechanism, only to move swiftly on to a series of male nudes or a study of ocean waves without even changing paper. Then again, he might use an empty corner to jot down a scientific observation or a moral speculation in his strange, backward-running "mirror handwriting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Graphics: A Man of Infinite Possibilities | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

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