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Dates: during 1960-1969
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COCKSURE, by Mordecai Richler. Satirist Richler's basic weapon is seductio ad absitrdum in this stylish spoof of the communications industry and pop culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mar. 22, 1968 | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...outpointed the other 12 squads to capture the three-weapon team title. Columbia's swordsmen dominated the round-robin individual tournaments with a sweep of firsts in the foil, epee, and sabre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Duelers Take Last Place | 3/19/1968 | See Source »

Deadly Debut. The most widely used of the new weapons made its first appearance in South Viet Nam nine months ago, and has since been used with increasing intensity. It is the Soviet-made, self-propelled 122-mm. rocket, whose seven-mile range has snatched every sanctuary away from the allies. The 122 has hit every major U.S. installation except Cam Ranh Bay at least once; its 42-lb. warhead has destroyed scores of parked U.S. planes, pockmarked runways from Danang to Tan Son Nhut. It has also been used against most cities, striking dread into the South Vietnamese. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Enemy's New Weapons | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...Communists also have a new abundance of the weapon that does the most to change the war's balance on a strictly man-to-man basis. It is the AK-47, another Soviet refinement of German weaponry. The AK-47 is so rugged, dependable, and fast-firing that it, in effect, practically turns an ordinary rifleman into a machine gunner. Some firearm experts consider it superior to the U.S. M16, which fires a smaller bullet and has an unfortunate tendency to jam. Though the AK-47 is heavier and heats up faster than the M16, U.S. combat troopers sometimes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Enemy's New Weapons | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

...race ... a model long in advance of Uncle Tom." Hannah Duston is not the heroic protector of white womanhood and the family but the great castrating mother of all men-a Mary Worth in linsey-woolsey. The tale of Rip Van Winkle is really about booze as a weapon against women. Only Natty Bumppo and Chingachgook make it through Fiedler's gauntlet without lumps. They constitute, he says, "the image of the runaway from home and civilization whom we long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The West Goes Psychedelic | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

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