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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...charge of Saigon's sprawling Tan Son Nhut air force base. From there, Ky jumped to his first look at the U.S. -six months at the Air Command and Staff College at Maxwell Field, Ala. Brief as it was, the tour permitted Ky to learn colloquial English and, says Lodge semifacetiously, "read the newspapers every day and learn what Americans are all about." Within five years of his return to Saigon, Ky was a major military figure-and commander of the entire South Vietnamese air force...
...Aranguren is a leader-in-exile of the Spanish student movement. He is a thin, dapper man, constantly moving, even when he is sitting down, talking: his hands twirl like pinwheels when he hunts for an English word, and deep lines crease his forehead as he organizes his thoughts. He is always the teacher and writer--he wrote several books on religion and ethics before joining the faculty of the University of Madrid in 1955--forever putting things in historical and philosophical perspective. He is currently on a lecture tour of universities in the United States, speaking on philosophy...
Herschel C. Baker, chairman of the English department, said that although he knew of no students in English who had missed the deadline, such students would not automatically be given compensatory...
...evening was serious and quiet, with Oglesby presenting again and again, patiently and without strain, his thoughts on theories and events in the world. He had come to radical politics slowly, after marriage, writing plays, six years of working as an editor for defense companies, and a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan. His road to radicalism ran through Vietnam: while researching campaign speeches for a Congressional candidate in 1962, he had begun to raise questions which no one else was asking. As an unpretentious yet inspiring leader, sitting on the floor with his student friends, he gave...
...devoted to hearing from the Harvard academic and administrative community. If any one area of study has dominated the list (and I don't believe it has), it could only have been by a narrow margin. We have heard from and argued with deans, physicists, law school professors, musicians, English professors and engineering spokesmen, as well as professors from the departments of government, social relations and history...