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...problem is complicated because some adolescent feeling and behavior are in fact ominous. Adolescence is the stage of life when a whole series of self-destructive and socially-destructive adaptations, from criminality to schizophrenia, first make their appearance. In adolescence, these adaptations are least rigidified, and are easiest to prevent or treat. Separating these ominous developments from the normal difficulties of adolescents is an important task. In the end, the skilled adult who attempts to differentiate the ominous from the normal must fall back on developmental criteria, attempting to judge whether the adolescent's behavior reflects the routine turbulence...
...feathers. "If I heard someone say once he was 'doing his thing,' I heard it a hundred times," reports Charles DeCarlo, director of automation research for IBM. Along with Buckminster Fuller and Economist Robert Theobald, DeCarlo had been invited to address the assembly. "It was the easiest speech I ever gave," he says. In fact, he could not get a word in edgewise...
Symbolically Vital. Khe Sanh is eminently worth holding?and defending. It is a major point on the DMZ defense line, the barrier that U.S. forces have sought to string from the sea below the DMZ to the Laotian border. It now blocks off the easiest supply line that Giap has into South Viet Nam. By taking Khe Sanh, the Communists would outflank all the allied forces in Quang Tri province and part of Thua Thien province as well, probably forcing a fallback to a new defense line?perhaps as far back at Hué. As Giap well knows, Khe Sanh...
...Sanh has been dug out of the red clay of a plateau that is ringed by high hills thick with trees and bamboo. Some 15 miles south of the DMZ and only ten miles east of the Laotian border, the Marine base lies directly athwart the easiest infiltration routes into South Viet Nam. To eliminate the roadblock, the North Vietnamese have ranged an estimated 20,000 men directly around Khe Sanh, have at least another 20,000 in reserve in Laos and immediately north of the DMZ, all located within 20 miles of the post. Together, they constitute the largest...
...where mergers are less urgent because rail routes are longer, highways fewer and profits greater, one small railroad is being assiduously courted. Both the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe have attempted to acquire the Western Pacific, if only because its profits are steady and its route includes the easiest pass through the Sierra Nevada. So far, Western President M. M. Christy has turned down all offers...