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...children growing up on the world's battlegrounds been the subject of such encompassing and penetrating exploration. Involved in the initial arrangements were TIME correspondents at bureaus in Great Britain, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. What their efforts made possible was a five-week, 25,000-mile odyssey by Senior Writer Roger Rosenblatt to regions of the world long tormented by war. What he returned with was an intensely personal account of how children view life when it might explode before their eyes at any moment. The project began when Rosenblatt saw a TV clip of a crying...
...flybys of Saturn's moons. Craters on Mimas, for example, will be named for characters from Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur; the recently photographed fissures on Enceladus, for those from the Arabian Nights; features on Tethys, for those from Homer's Odyssey. Yet even so seemingly innocuous a task can bog down in politics. The Soviets like to name newly discovered asteroids after revolutionary heroes. Last summer U.S. and West European astronomers countered by naming one after dissident Soviet Physicist Andrei Sakharov...
This kind of thing replaces the Herbie the Dentist business and the abominable snowman odyssey in the TV version, which is probably a plus since the record is consequently only the size...
...Carrabino, who hails from the more Southern California city of Los Angeles, was followed by a clan of Carrabinos wherever he went--"It looked like Joe had developed a fan club like Ferry (freshman BOB FERRY) has," junior LAMAR FLATT said...Junior JEFF SINEK turned 21 during the Western odyssey...
...certain comfort in routine; Gregory obviously seeks the intensification of experience that can result from a daily questioning of one's routines. Neither wants to pick a fight or, for that matter, make a convert. At most, it would seem, André wants to make certain that his odyssey was not in vain, that he learned something for his trouble. And, it must be said, there are several anecdotes that are not without interest in the retell ing, one or two observations about the ways of the world that are acute...