Word: owen
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...breakfast time on a jungle road in Viet Nam last week, Dwight Owen killed a Communist and saw dozens of Americans die. On patrol with a 1st Infantry Division search-and-destroy unit in the Iron Triangle 35 miles northwest of Saigon, the gangling (6 ft. 4½ in.) 19-year-old was walking down a path munching his B rations when a Viet Cong .50-cal. machine gun opened fire. Then, from all four sides and above, more machine guns, grenade launchers and snipers' rifles poured lead into the detachment, felling two G.I.s instantly. From a thicket where...
There are healthier ways to take a sabbatical from Stanford University. But Dwight Hall Owen Jr., an inquiring, venturesome sophomore from Providence, R.I., who for kicks mined gold in Honduras when he was 18, decided last spring that he had to reach his own decisions about the war, the world and Dwight Hall Owen Jr. "I wanted to see the world while I'm still young and impressionable," he explains, "before prejudices have a chance to harden. I wanted to be on my own completely, for once in my life, and-I don't know-I guess...
Next came a riverboat foray in the Mekong Delta ("We took some sniper fire"). After that, Owen got his chance to go out with the 1st Infantry in the "boonies" near Lai Khe. Save for Providence Journal stitched over his left shirt pocket, he was garbed-and armed -like every other foot slogger in the detachment...
Zapped Again. It was on the second day of the patrol that the unit got bush whacked. When the Communists opened fire, Owen struggled loose to form a defensive formation with half a dozen others. After firing a few rounds, his weapon jammed. "I'd never fired an M-14 before," he says. "I figured I'd better learn." Yanking out the blocked magazine, Owen replaced it and aimed at what looked like a moving tree. It spun sideways and fell. "Man, I was really praying then," he says. To stay alive? "Heck, no," he replies earnestly...
Before Dullea could get the ball off, Penn's Tom Owen hurtled in to block the attempt. As the loose ball bounced away, the Quakers' Denny Lynch gave it a tremendous kick that sent it skipping far downfield to the Harvard 33, where Lynch caught up with it and fell...