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...last week, adding stop action, closeups and further background to refute Pentagon suggestions that supporting helicopters were not American, that the South Vietnamese troops were merely on a training exercise and that the prisoner may have been dead when stabbed. To debunk the last charge, CBS produced the knife wielder, Sergeant Nguyen Van Mot of the South Vietnamese Regional Forces, who claimed that he had stabbed the prisoner in self-defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Delayed Replay | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

...Saber Wielder Downed...

Author: By Martin R. Garay, | Title: Crimson Fencers Fall to Tigers: Harvard Loses Third Ivy Match | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...blue American bald eagle (Juris patriotus). The thrasher is often confused with the Communist-eating hawk (Victus eternus), but differs in its diet, for the thrasher thrives on yellow-bellied land snatchers and pink-tufted dissenters (Marxis militanus). The thrasher is a close relative of the Baltimore hatchet wielder (Agnewus intim-idalus) and the rednecked robin (Thur-mondus segregatus), until recently thought to be extinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 5, 1970 | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

Died. Westbrook Pegler, 74, newspaper columnist and for nearly 30 years wielder of U.S. journalism's most malevolent pen (see THE PRESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 4, 1969 | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

...wielder of behind-the-scenes influence, South Carolina's Senator Strom Thurmond is sometimes pictured as a rival of Rasputin. In return for the South's electoral support, the stories went, it was Thurmond who had final clearance on Richard Nixon's vice-presidential choice, Spiro Agnew, during the Republican Convention in Miami. Nixon recently alluded to his Dixie friend with some of his newly discovered humor. It was delivered at a dinner of the Alfalfa Club, a group of top businessmen, professionals and Government officials that starts off the term of a new President by putting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nixon's New Humor (Cont'd) | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

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