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...water than its weight will be used for the emigration. Some are sailing on the Marine boats (Jumper, Falcon, Tiger, etc.,), while others will be racing across on the Queens (Elizabeth and Mary) or on other massive ships of the line. A few fortunate ones will be making their Odyssey by air, but they all want the same thing: to see Europe as quickly as possible...
From the Veterans' book list for the spring term: "English 31b--Milton, 'Paradise Required,' Odyssey Press...
...which organizes the universe so that what is worth saving is never wholly lost. For Whitehead, God was not an awesome tyrant but "the poet of the world, with tender patience leading it by his vision of truth, beauty and goodness." It is a long, hard road. In the Odyssey of the human spirit, said Whitehead, "every generation must carry the cross up the hill and there suffer for the next generation." Last week in Cambridge, Mass., 86-year-old Philosopher Whitehead went over his hill...
PRESIDENTS' SONS (451 pp.) - J. J. Perling-Odyssey...
...never quite understood why the U.S. Navy wanted their island; they were told it would be "something good for mankind," and so they agreed. Now, after a year and a half on smaller, less fertile Rongerik, they were ailing. So the Navy prepared Chapter Two in the Bikini odyssey. Juda and his people were to be shipped to Ujelang Atoll, 400 miles to the west. Ujelang, it was explained, was larger, more fertile. But what ailed Juda's people most was homesickness. "We want to go back to Bikini," they told officials. "We just want to go back...