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...comers, the Business School preps, there is the Business Board, with its overflowing coffers and Horatio Alger outlook. The f-stop crowd with a Tri-X perspective will drool when confronted with the CRIMSON's photographic facilities...
...South Viet Nam a student who passes an exam is a dau; a flunkster is called a rot. A schoolchild clever enough to remain a dau through 13 years of classes and pass his bachot (baccalaureate exam) becomes a tri thuc (intellectual), and has few further worries. The young nation has a shortage of scholars and a Confucian reverence for learning, and young male tri thucs get autos, villas and high-paying jobs from rich parents of marriageable daughters...
...five cars on the odyssey made an odd lot. The heftiest, a four-cylinder Itala, weighed in at two tons and worked up to 40 h.p. The others: a couple of two-cylinder, 10-h.p. De Dions, a 15 h.p. Spyker, and a tiny (6 h.p.) three-wheel Tri-Contal. Before they had covered 20 miles, all the cars needed coolies to haul them most of the rest of the way to Kalgan, on the edge of the desert...
...water from their radiators to keep alive. They used blowtorches to heat their meals when they could not bear using camel dung as fuel. Bridges collapsed under them, their cars sank hub deep in mud or sand, brakes gave way and the cars slid down steep, rocky hillsides. The Tri-Contal gave up its tiny ghost, but the other four somehow made it to the Siberian border...
...happen to glance up at the wall and check your Playmate-of-the-Month tri-color calendar, you'll notice that it's May--reading period time. And if the Metaphysical Poets, the Peace of Westphalia, and Central Kitchen dietetics have furrowed your brow, and you feel you need a final fling at debauchery before the reckoning--try a day of escape at the Boston flicks...