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...Greg Zielinski rebelled against the preppies of Fairfield, Conn., and came to West Point to be the toughest infantryman he could be. Tom Pae came from Newark, Calif., just east of San Francisco, as the son of Korean artists, to better himself and give back to his family's adopted country as a soldier and a leader. Tuscon native Kristen Beyer knew nothing about the army and entered West Point mainly to swim for its Division I team, but she stayed to pursue a new dream of flying Blackhawk helicopters...
DIED. PETER RODINO, 95, unassuming, gravel-voiced Democratic Congressman from New Jersey who, with a steady hand, led the compelling House impeachment investigation of President Richard Nixon; in West Orange, N.J. Born to Italian immigrants in working-class Newark, N.J. Rodino was an aspiring novelist before he turned to law school. Elected in 1948, he served quietly for 25 years before becoming a household name in 1973 during the Watergate investigation. "If fate had been looking for one of the powerhouses of Congress," he said at the time, "it wouldn't have picked...
People has had difficulty in managing its own rapid growth. Its Newark base, which is more like a giant bus station than an airline terminal, is often uncomfortably congested. In addition, passengers find it frustrating to make reservations by telephone because the lines always seem to be busy. Says Harold Binder, a travel agent at Trade Mark Tours of Miami: "We just can't get through." Some resourceful customers have discovered a solution: stay up past midnight before calling...
...Francisco Bay area, the place to be is the Well, where Counterculture Editor Stewart Brand files wry comments on current affairs in the telegraphic style he perfected in the Whole Earth Catalogs. On the Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES) in Newark, Murray Turoff, co-author of the influential Network Nation, brainstorms with a highbrow group of 1,200 executives and writers that has included such luminaries as Author Alvin Toffler...
...defeat, coming exactly one week after the Crimson snapped its 13-match win streak against Rutgers-Newark, marked Harvard’s first three-game loss of the season...