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...other French, and they are carefully segregated. The English-speaking flyers are housed in the dilapidated, mosquito-ridden Hôtel de la Rèsidence, run by a waspish French brunette named Jackie, whose sole virtue seems to be that she is able to count in English. Eighteen of the pilots are Rhodesian and South African, all clad in the uniform of the British colonial in Africa: highly polished shoes, long socks, neatly pressed shorts and starched bush jackets. Carefully holding themselves apart are several ex-RAF types, moustached and bearded, who punctuate their clipped, casual conversation with dated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Keeping Biafra Alive | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

Discovering Things: You were just average in college but the plague closes it down for eighteen months before you before you can return for graduate work. An apple either falls on you head or it doesn't. It does; and, with eighteen months of idle thought just finished, you then derive the calculus and the basic laws of motion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Your Life etc. | 11/20/1968 | See Source »

...crest of the hill and down the back side to open up a ten yard lead by the final flat stretch. He managed to maintain his momentum over the final 600 yards as his long-time Eli rival faded rapidly. Hardin's final margin of victory, a convincing eighteen seconds, belied the closeness of the battle...

Author: By Richard T. Howe, | Title: Harriers, Hardin Set Heps Record | 11/9/1968 | See Source »

...everyday programming. "What I've seen," says Mrs. Paul Scott, 27, of suburban Los Angeles, "has really frightened me. There's this tremendous emphasis on materialism. And of course the violence." Mrs. Jan Rogers of Tallahassee, a mother of two young children, feels the same way. Eighteen months ago, she "just unplugged the damn thing and put it into the closet." She is particularly happy, she says, to be free of the bombardment of all those commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Audience: The Videophobes | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

...dying faster than medical schools are producing them. This while we must have a two percent annual increase in doctors merely to keep up with population growth. It would not change the fact that seven states have no medical schools, four more have only two-year schools, and eighteen more have only one school...

Author: By Jerald R. Gerst, | Title: Instant Pre-Med | 11/2/1968 | See Source »

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