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...safety, tried to stop the woman from objecting. One soldier kicked the mother and another slapped her up a bit. Haeberle [the photographer] jumped in to take a picture of the group of women. The picture shows the 13-year-old girl, hiding behind her mother, trying to button the top of her pajamas. When they noticed Ron, they left off and turned away as if everything was normal. Then a soldier asked, 'Well, what'll we do with 'em?' 'Kill 'em,' another answered. I heard an M60 go off, a light machine gun, and when we turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

...overlook" in the garden there is a stand with a map of the battle area. Pushing a button starts a voice that explains that you cannot see most of the sites because they are in back of you. It also gives you the name of every commander at the battle and tells you where they all went. You are told far too much to understand anything, except the vague idea that farmers were shooting in the fields. (It is difficult to get a sense of the farmers. After all, they were revolutionaries-and the bourgeoisie...

Author: By Carole J. Uhlaner, | Title: Thanksgiving Lexington and Concord | 12/1/1969 | See Source »

...addition to the work of an active God, members attribute the revival to present chaos in society. "There are a lot of mixed-up people," said Marilyn Button, head of the Jackson fellowship. "Christ brings all the areas of your life into order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Will Jesus Save Harvard? | 11/25/1969 | See Source »

...back to the wall, the door slid shut, and the stage was clear. Before Hermione is revivified she appears as a statue. Nunn put her in the same cube Time had used behind a revolving mirror-this time it stayed upstage. Instead of drawing a curtain Paulina pushed a button, and the mirror revolved to reveal Hermione...

Author: By Frederic C. Bartter jr., | Title: Shakespeare and the RSC | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

...canvas was about to collapse all about us, but nobody quite knew how to panic. There was simply no way to characterize the crowd; the militants must have all been up front because they didn't seem to be in evidence. In the midst of everybody else was a button-hawker with a large, black-felt-covered board, dotted with all colors and sizes of peace buttons. A few kids stood around him trying to decide which buttons they wanted to buy. I swear, but even after the gas really started, that guy still stood there. He must have been...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Memoirs of a Would-be Street lighter | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

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