Word: owen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Life was never dull for Dwight Hall Owen Jr. By the time he was a sophomore at Stanford University, gangling (6 ft. 4½ in.), energetic "Dee" Owen had fought forest fires in the West, mined gold in Honduras, motor-scoot-ered through Europe, and worked his way to Viet Nam. There, as a free lance newspaper correspondent, he be came something of a hero by shooting it out with the Viet Cong when the 1st Infantry patrol he was accompanying was ambushed north of Saigon (TIME...
...Owen was so fascinated by the military and civil war for South Viet Nam that he signed up at 19 as the youngest assistant province representative with U.S. AID. Owen spent nine months in the countryside working directly with Vietnamese peasants, earned their respect for his bravery and understanding of their needs. "The U.S. taxpayer pays me," he used to say, "but I am working for the guy in the paddy...
...eldest of three sons of a well-to-do Rhode Island family, Owen last fall returned to Stanford, where he smoothly resumed his studies, zestfully plunged into the social whirl and earned a commendable 3.2 grade average. But all the while, he could not forget the challenges of Viet Nam. "There's a world of reality out there," he wrote a friend, "and sometimes it makes this one seem strange...
...come up with an answer. Two weeks ago, in one magnificent afternoon at Wimbledon, she 1) polished off Britain's Ann Haydon-Jones to win the singles again, 2) teamed with Rosemary Casals to beat Maria Bueno and Nancy Richey for the doubles title, and 3) combined with Owen Davidson to capture the mixed doubles. It was a feat last accomplished by Doris Hart...
...reception been to the New Wave Czech films that the comrades have agreed to send along at least one of the ingredients, a blonde, blue-eyed Olinka Berova, 21. La Berova, a former dancer who has made eleven films at home, was snapped up by British Director Cliff Owen for a lead in a movie called The Vengeance of She, will be the first actress from Eastern Europe to toil in a capitalist movie. She seems to know the fundamentals. After expressing her affection for London by embracing the miniskirt, she flew to the film location in Monaco, embraced even...