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...kidnapers as fast as possible to ensure his daughter's safe return. Contact was made and Mackle stuffed a large suitcase with old $20 bills to the amount of $500,000. Following orders, he dropped it into Biscayne Bay on Thursday morning, just offshore from a stretch of overgrown lots south of downtown Miami. A local resident, wakened at 5 a.m. by the sound of an approaching outboard, saw a white Boston Whaler being beached on a neighbor's lawn and, because of a recent rash of burglaries, phoned the police. Because the FBI had not bothered...
...told, to be led, to be directed. We have been like that from prehistoric man to the scholars of today. Because this country has refused to accept that fact for so long, its outbursts shock you and surprise you. You have always had an image of innocence, of overgrown children and maybe you reveled in it because innocence is related to purity of motives...
...reef, lobsters, shrimp and crabs were virtually wiped out, starfish and sea urchins vanished. In tidal zones, limpets and other browsing creatures that keep shore lines free of decayed material and control the growth of seaweed were decimated. As a result, portions of the Cornwall coast are overgrown with seaweed this year...
Unfortunately for many students, there are even stronger forces which discourage making use of Harvard's curious freedom. The prospect of manipulating a system overgrown with 300 years of ivy can be over-whelming. It takes a certain amount of security and self-confidence to buck a school with Harvard's reputation. Few students are able to do this without some advice or prodding...
Texas-Size Growth. Even established public multiversities are building in frantic fashion. The University of California (current enrollment: 95,320, which will grow to 140,000 by 1975) adds 8,000 students a year-the equivalent of Yale's student body. At its crowded, overgrown Berkeley campus, steelworkers clinging to an open I beam are as much a part of the Sproul Plaza scene as are the hippie protesters. Texas-size is the right phrase for that state's major public university, which has spread to ten campuses in seven cities with 52,631 students, 1,500 teachers...