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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...warning to make certain that his troops could hold each area. In No Exit from Viet Nam, written after the enemy's 1968 Tet offensive, Thompson indicts President Johnson's excessive buildup and General William Westmoreland's use of unwieldy units to carry out unproductive "search and destroy" missions. Thompson warmly endorses the more limited "spoiler" tactics devised by General Creighton Abrams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The President's Guerrilla Expert | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

When Walt was five months old, his father was deported to Surinam for violating immigration laws. The child spent the rest of his short life looking for a father surrogate. His search was limited to the area around Harlem's West 116th Street, where-like many children who grow up there-he learned about hustling, dope and sex before he was ten. Often he subsisted on potato chips, baloney and sodas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drugs: Why Did Walter Die? | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...than a year's debate over a successor to Edward Barrett, the former dean. Barrett resigned after the turbulent student disorders of 1968, protesting "authoritarian rule by remote, inaccessible powers" at the university. He left behind a faculty factioned between traditional and innovative journalism. When a largely conservative search committee proposed Abel for the deanship last June, rebellious professors overwhelmingly voted it down, citing "lack of consultation" and "undue haste in appointing a man we know little about." But Columbia President Andrew Cordier, prodded by the traditionalists, overrode the faculty and went ahead with the appointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dean of a School Divided | 12/26/1969 | See Source »

...mystical search for a shortcut to Utopia or euphoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The '60s to The 70s: Dissent and Discovery | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

...Next Decade: A Search for Goals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The '60s to The 70s: Dissent and Discovery | 12/19/1969 | See Source »

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