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...standing. What was once a good-size jungle becomes a desert piled with brush. Occasionally, there is an enormous explosion as "the tunnel rats," having excavated a Viet Cong burrow, blow it up. When it is all over, only the stench of cordite mingling with Cu Chi's grey dust and the drifting blue smoke of bombs lingers over the desolation. Cu Chi will not soon harbor Viet Cong again, at least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: The Red Napoleon | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...Brundage, who has been collecting since 1912, has acquired more than 5,000 objects, whose origins range from Japan to Iran. As he opened the 12-ft-high bronze doors that lead to the Museum's 100,000-sq.-ft. new wing, he sported in his lapel the grey rosette on gold representing Japan's Order of the Sacred Treasure first class, earned for both his role in the Olympics and his patronage of Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Museums: The Gateway's Oriental Treasure | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...after launch to a more or less circular pad with a guest wing as roomy as a Holiday Inn. One unit is decorated in passionate red, and the whole house is the sort of marshmallow dream that Hollywood merchants manufacture year after year to spoon glamour into the dull, grey life of your average mortgage-holder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Space Chase | 6/17/1966 | See Source »

...grey pages of the Soviet press are seldom relieved by satire, but in recent weeks Russian editors have been turning to that form of wit as a means of ridiculing their truculent fellow Communists, the Red Chinese. Spread across a recent issue of Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta was one of the more hilarious examples of the current Mao-knows-best school of Chinese journalism. The Moscow editors reprinted the article from a Chinese paper without comment, presumably because its title fully signaled its inanity: "Let Us Speak of the Philosophic Questions of Selling Watermelons in Big Cities." The author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Wisdom in Watermelons | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

Daddy, I have had to kill you. You died before I had time-Marble-heavy, a bag full of God, Ghastly statue with one grey toe Big as a Frisco seal

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Blood Jet Is Poetry | 6/10/1966 | See Source »

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