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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...
...allied design. The prey: some 3,700 veteran Viet Cong troops who have been roaming at will up and down the province of Quang Tin between the coastal Marine enclaves at Danang and Chu Lai. The province, for more than a year a hardcore Communist stronghold beyond the reach of government troops, is a paddy-checkered producer of rice used to feed enemy troops. It is harvest time. And Viet Cong control of the region has made Route One-the natural north-south highway between Danang and Chu Lai-too hazardous for allied...
...Once you decide to have a space program, one, which attempts to reach its goals quickly, is the only efficient one. "If President Kennedy had said in 1961, 'I want us to reach the moon by 1975,' it would have been much more expensive for us," said a NASA official. "We'd have had to pay people to do the same work over a longer time. This is not a crash program--we're not developing duplicate systems and then discarding the least efficient, as they did in the atom-bomb project...
Students who choose Biology 2, a half course, or who have received advanced placement in freshman courses would be required to take other courses to reach the required total of seven...
Herdar Freiburg. $19. When Troy fell 3,000 years ago, the warrior Odysseus, king of Ithaca, set sail for home. The direct route was only 550 miles, but Odysseus was b'own all over the Mediterranean, took te'n years to reach his native land. Homer first recorded the voyagers' adventures in his epic poem The Odyssey. Now Photographer Erich Lessing has trained his camera on the very scenes that may have met the voyagers' astonished eyes: the shores of Djerba, off the Tunisian Coast, where Odysseus-here given his Roman name of Ulysses-tarried among...