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Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., has the look of a typical New England campus in summer session. Small groups of students sprawl on smooth lawns, chat in the green shade of old maple trees, and stroll among rosy brick and crisp white clapboard buildings. But this is no typical summer school. The students are somewhat longer of tooth and thicker of waist than the average undergraduate, and their chatter is about polymers and photoconduction, magnetic resonance and spectroscopy. They are participants in one of the Gordon Research Conferences, possibly the oldest and most eminent floating brain trust...
...your heroes. They will not remember your face, or your name; they may preside over Harvard and Radcliffe, but they are partially human. Skippable, unless you fear that you may never get that close to them again. Your fears may be justified. The Fogg is a nice place to stroll and muse, too. The rest of you will have to wait with baited breath till tomorrow...
...Walkman is a cassette player that can be hung from the neck, strapped to a belt or simply carried in a pocket. Attached is a headset with half-dollar-size earphones that provide true stereo sound. Best of all, the Walkman (just under $200) lets a pedestrian stroll to his own beat, whether Bach or disco, without inflicting it on others. Hear, hear...
...years at Cambridge, the great don thereafter took his daily "stroll" forced-march style, a spartan, slender man of sorrowful visage with pale eyes and drooping gray mustache...
During the Main Street stroll, a little girl gaped at the famed peanut farmer. "You're so changed," she said...