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...joined the Marines in 1967, while a student at Hofstra University on New York's Long Island. Muller, whose family had emigrated from Switzerland when he was one, became convinced of the "inevitability" of America's struggle in Indochina and wanted to play a part. Recalling his graduation from Quantico, he says: "I stood there in my dress whites and cried like a baby when they played The Star-Spangled Banner. I cried out of pride...
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...Carol Alt, 20, is the youngest model to tie down an exclusive cosmetics contract. Hers is with Lancôme, and she signed it after dropping out of Hofstra University, where she had been a straight A pre-law student. Modeling, she says, "can be a head trip, and you can get carried away. You have to be a businesswoman." She talks sometimes of returning to college to get a business degree. "I'm interested in the way that money works...
...Yorker who owns several plastics companies, he accumulates paintings and bronzes because "there is nothing more exciting than to have great objects of art around." He concentrates on 19th century academics, pre-Raphaelites and symbolists, because at the time he began collecting 20 years ago they cost relatively little. Hofstra-educated Pivar has steeped himself in his field since then, reading exhaustively and traveling to important auctions around the world. Says he: "To be a knowledgeable collector of 19th century painting you have to be a mythologist as well as a historian. Being a collector turns you into an aesthete...
...Robert Muller, 34, was an idealistic undergraduate at New York's Hofstra University when he enlisted in the Marines and went to Viet Nam as a lieutenant. In 1969 he was shot in the spine and left paralyzed from the waist down. The disillusioning war and shabby treatment accorded the men who fought it turned him into a crusader. As executive director of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Muller is fighting for jobs, better benefits and respect for the 3 million Americans who served in Southeast Asia. Now a lawyer, he is a moving orator when addressing Americans about...