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...heard that I could stay in a Buddhist Wat, or temple, for free, so I looked on my new-found map for the nearest wat and asked a saffron robed monk if I could find temporary lodging in his temple. He ran inside to speak to the abbott and reappeared five minutes later. "Are you a hippie?" he asked me, straight-faced. "No," I replied, rather taken aback. He disappeared again, and after another five minute wait, told me I could stay...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Hitching Through Laos Or, When is a Trail Not a Trail? | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

Molecular biology, in part, is rooted in the science of genetics. Ever since Cro-Magnon man, parents have probably wondered why their children resemble them. But not until an obscure Austrian monk named Gregor Mendel began planting peas in his monastery's garden in the mid-19th century were the universal laws of heredity worked out. By tallying up the variations in the offspring peas, Mendel determined that traits are passed from generation to generation with mathematical precision in small, separate packets, which subsequently became known as genes (from the Greek word for race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE CELL: Unraveling the Double Helix and the Secret of Life | 4/19/1971 | See Source »

Calley was also convicted of the murder of a Vietnamese man dressed in the white robes of a monk and of assault to commit murder for shooting at a small child in the ditch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Military Jury Finds Calley Guilty of My Lai Shootings | 3/30/1971 | See Source »

...record-watcher. Monk and Joe break all the records and I just sit around and watch," he said. Cavanagh, an All-America choice his sophomore and junior years, is second in all-time Harvard scoring, and owns numerous records in assists. DeMichele set the Ivy League record for goals in a season this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cooch Owen Sees Himself As Most Underrated Star | 3/18/1971 | See Source »

...intersection of trails where about 30 are said to have died. He admitted to two other incidents. "I just saw a head moving through the rice and fired." It turned out to be a small boy. Later, Calley said, he "butt-stroked" a man in white garb, possibly a monk. He denied the claims of other witnesses that he blew off the man's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Who Is Responsible for My Lai? | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

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