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Kissinger telephoned Ford to report that a fleet of 81 helicopters was about to embark on its mission, then, at 1:08 a.m. Tuesday, he called again with the news that the evacuation had begun. In Saigon, the center of activity for much of the day was the landing zone at Tan Son Nhut airport, a tennis court near the defense attache's compound. Landing two at a time, the helicopters unloaded their squads of Marines-860 in all, who reinforced 125 Marines already on the scene-and quickly picked up evacuees (see box following page...
...N.Y.U. could use some of that support. One of the largest private universities in the nation, it has an enrollment of nearly 40,000 students and is just recovering from a brush with fiscal disaster. In 1972 N.Y.U. faced a $7.9 million deficit, and the trustees had to embark on an austerity drive. They sold the university's second campus, ten miles uptown from the main campus in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, dropped its engineering school, and cut the full-time faculty from 2,200 to 1,965. This year the deficit is down to $3 million...
...sports, drams and music groups, clubs or scholarship funds, not to mentions, until now, a voice in The Crimson, Certainly the small--though growing--proportion of seriously continuing students would hardly deplete Harvard's physical and financial endowment. with many younger people breaking the traditional four year syndromes is embark on necessary remunerative work during their "college years," the option to participate fully in all aspect of University life, however irregularly, is as potentially important to present undergraduates in the College as to the graying heads grinding through the Extension program, at whatever chronological...
...President Ngarta Tombal-baye of Chad to embark on what I consider a slow, premeditated and malicious extermination of Christians [Nov. 18] is dragging Chadians back to a neolithic way of life from which, ironically, we were all rescued by Christianity and colonialism alike...
Thus, in the iambics of his Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson voiced the anomie that propelled the ancient Greeks to embark on fragile craft in search of islands where life, far from the mainland tensions of politics and war, would be eternally serene. That urge-or illusion -has never been stronger than it is today in the U.S. and Canada, where with aircraft, power boats and well-laden wallets, romantics and hard-nosed investors alike can seek modern Happy Isles remote from the purgatory of urban-suburban life...