Time Magazine, Volume 91, No. 16, April 19, 1968

92, [2] pages, plus covers. Illustrations (some with color). Cover has some wear and soiling. Cover is an image of General Creighton Abrams with the banner New Man in Viet Nam. Abrams was on the cover of Time magazine three times in ten years: 1961 (October 13), 1968 (April 19), and 1971 (February 15). Mailing label on front cover. The issue has, as usual, a wide range of articles, including coverage of Civil Rights, Martin Luther King Jr.'s funeral, Ramsey Clark, Antiwar protest, Khe Sanh, Pierre Trudeau, Josephine Baker, Indira Gandhi, Joel Grey, Walter Cronkite, Rod Steiger and 2001: A Space Odyssey. Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City. It was the first weekly news magazine in the United States. It was published weekly for nearly a century. Starting in March 2020, it transitioned to every other week. It was first published in New York City on March 3, 1923, and for many years it was run by its influential co-founder, Henry Luce. Time set out to tell the news through people, and until the late 1960s, the magazine's cover depicted a single person. Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. (September 15, 1914 - September 4, 1974) was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972. He was then Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972 until his death in 1974. Abrams graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in the Class of 1936 His classmates included Benjamin O. Davis Jr. and William Westmoreland. Abrams became an armor officer early in the development of that branch and served as a tank company commander in the 1st Armored Division in 1940. During World War II, Abrams served in the 4th Armored Division, initially as regimental adjutant (June 1941 - June 1942), battalion commander (July 1942 - March 1943), and regiment executive officer (March-September 1943) with the 37th Armor Regiment. In September 1943, a reorganization of the division redesignated the 37th Armor Regiment to the 37th Tank Battalion, which Abrams commanded. He commanded Combat Command B of the division during the Battle of the Bulge. During this time Abrams was promoted to the temporary ranks of major (February 1942), lieutenant colonel (September 1942), and colonel (April 1945). Abrams was promoted to lieutenant colonel at age 27 years, 11 months. During much of this time, the 4th Armored Division, led by the 37th Tank Battalion, was the spearhead for General George S. Patton's Third Army. Abrams was well known as an aggressive armor commander. By using his qualities as a leader and by consistently exploiting the relatively small advantages of speed and reliability of his vehicles, he managed to defeat German forces that had the advantage of superior armor and superior guns. He was twice decorated with the Distinguished Service Cross for extraordinary heroism, on September 20 and December 26, 1944. General George Patton said of him: "I'm supposed to be the best tank commander in the Army, but I have one peer—Abe Abrams. He's the world champion." Frequently the spearhead of the Third Army during World War II, Abrams was one of the leaders in the relief effort that broke up the German entrenchments surrounding Bastogne and the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of the Bulge. Following the war, Abrams served on the Army General Staff (1945-1946), as head of the department of tactics at the Armored School, Fort Knox (1946-1948), and graduated from the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth (1949). Abrams commanded the 63rd Tank Battalion, part of the 1st Infantry Division, in Europe (1949-1951). He was again promoted to colonel and commanded the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment (1951-1952). These units were important assignments due to the Cold War concern for potential invasion of western Europe by the Soviet Union. He then attended and graduated from the Army War College in 1953. He was transferred to the Pentagon as. …