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Grinspoon tries hard, too, to explain the explosion of dope use among college students. At times, his characterization of the "Now generation" becomes overly lavish...
...battles like last week's bloody struggles at Fire Base Lolo and Landing Zone Brown show that South Vietnamese troops can summon considerable courage, even when outnumbered 3 to 1 or more. Yet it is also clear that the key to ARVN survival in Laos has been the lavish use of U.S. airpower. For their part, senior South Vietnamese officers say that Laos has exposed some leadership problems even in crack ARVN units, and the lesson, they judge, is that Vietnamization has proceeded "too fast." Moreover, it may be six months or more before the seven first-rank ARVN...
Died. Charles W. Engelhard, 54, lavish-living multimillionaire who may have served as the model for the central character in Ian Fleming's novel Goldfinger: of an apparent heart attack: in Boca Grande, Fla. Engelhard ballooned an inheritance of $20 million into an estimated $250 million by his grasp of the potential of precious metals in technology. Equally successful in racing, he spent close to $10 million for top-quality thoroughbreds, had 213 victories in the U.S. in nine years. After his acquaintance Fleming published Goldfinger, Engelhard emphasized the obvious by once showing up for a party...
...roaming the grounds. Tri was devoted to his wife and six children; he taught economy to the younger ones by using their allowances to buy animal feed for the pig, then letting them split the profit when the pig was sold. But his style of living was so lavish that suspicions of corruption were continually raised against him, and in 1965, during a government investigation of his wealth, he attempted suicide. One of the sponsors of the inquiry was Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, then head of the air force. The two men became bitter enemies, and though they often...
Like so many other troubled, dislocated young Americans, Taylor may at first seem self-indulgent in his woe. What he has endured and sings about, with much restraint and dignity, are mainly "head" problems, those pains that a lavish quota of middle-class advantages?plenty of money, a loving family, good schools, health, charm and talent?do not seem to prevent, and may in fact exacerbate. Drugs, underachievement, the failure of will, alienation, the doorway to suicide, the struggle back to life?James Taylor has been there himself...