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On Their Knees. Even so, more than a third of the American perimeter caved in, yielding yard by yard to Viet Cong pressure. Young troopers took reckless chances to fetch more bullets and grenades. Using his master sergeant as a sort of artillery spotter, Specialist Four Samuel Townsend, 21, a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Terrible Price | 3/31/1967 | See Source »

The University realizes, of course, that the freedom of the student to engage in legal political activities is a vital component of present educational policy. Harvard has never tolerated even implicit outside restrictions of questionable legality on its students. A prompt stand against yielding to an HUAC subpoena would reaffirm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HUAC and the University | 3/13/1967 | See Source »

Poetry, friends, can be a boon companion, can lead us beside the still waters, can wrap us in its colors to keep us warm. Lately it has fallen out of use, especially modern poetry. In the wake of "The Waste Land," many young folk suppose that all modern verse will...

Author: By Jeremy W. Heist, | Title: A Young Poet | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

During the year, interest rates climbed by one-fifth or more, and many would-be borrowers could not get credit at any price. For lack of money, scores of communities put off plans for needed schools, parks and highways. Thousands of prospective home buyers were compelled to postpone their dreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Year of Tight Money And Where It Will Lead | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

Cua took the job reluctantly in the first place, yielding to Loan's entreaties that the city needed him. He soon proved to be imaginative and energetic, but he also began to work off the frustrations of his job in bars at night. Last week he stopped a convoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Overworked Mayor | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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