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Despite the financial obstacles facing most private universities (TIME cover, June 23), academe still has fearless optimists who figure they know how to beat the odds. No one is more con fident of ultimate success than Warren J. Winstead, president of the brand-new Nova University near Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Brashly aimed at becoming a Southern counterpart to Caltech and M.I.T., Nova U. is being guided by a blue-ribbon panel of top educators, will open its first classes this fall with just 21 graduate students, all on full fellowships-and also with 25 Ph.D. professors...
...traps" of dating. The message to the boys is that they need not make a pass at a girl to prove themselves masculine, and to the girls that they need not say yes to remain popular. Says Cook: "We try to give them answers for all the old con games." Without explicit moralizing, the course relies heavily on cautionary tales about venereal disease and the consequences of unwanted pregnancies. A typical deterrent story concerns a boy who could not go to college and had to become a garage mechanic instead to support his baby. Says an observer of the Anaheim...
...leathernecks streamed ashore 21 miles northeast of Hue in an amphibious and heliborne assault. Sporadic fighting also broke out along the Demilitarized Zone, where the Marines discovered and destroyed no fewer than 77 Communist bunkers, stacked with food and supplies, within a three-mile radius of their Con Thien base camp, just south of the DMZ. Near the Marine base of Dong Ha, a 5,000-man South Vietnamese task force killed 150 Communists of the Viet Cong's elite 708th Battalion...
Given the cast of characters involved in the Seigler debacle, many Wall Streeters fear that hoodlums may be involved in some of the price riggings. For one thing, Kozak, a onetime bail bondsman and paint salesman, had brought to Seigler such customers as 325-lb. convicted Con Man Alan Rosenberg, who was dropped by nine gunshot wounds in the spring of 1967 in a still unexplained Chicago murder. About possible gangland involvement in the Pentron case, U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau would only say: "I don't want to get into that...
...remove the estimated 11,000 villagers living in the DMZ and resettle them farther south, thus creating a free bombing zone in the buffer strip; the South Vietnamese force that moved up Route 1 had part of the same mission. The Marine force that helicoptered in north of Con Thien faced little opposition, but it quickly uncovered proof of Hanoi's plans for a major offensive out of the DMZ: a vast depot of North Vietnamese equipment ranging from rockets, mortars and antitank mines to rice and medical equipment...