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Says Raymond Vernon, director of Harvard's Center for International Affairs: "The U.S. thinks of itself as if the wily Europeans have somehow got the better of us, as though we've had too much of the burden and cost and been weakened. There's a sense of being put upon. Many European leaders, however, see us as a country of overriding strength...
...between 1955 and 1959, Carlos Castaneda was enrolled, under that name, as a pre-psychology major at Los Angeles City College. His liberal arts studies included, in his first two years, two courses in creative writing and one in journalism. Vernon King, his creative-writing professor at L.A.C.C., still has a copy of The Teachings inscribed "To a great teacher, Vernon King, from one of his students, Carlos Castaneda...
Both the sabre and foil teams took six out of nine. In sabre, where Crimson coach Edo Marion is seeking replacements for the graduating standouts on the varsity, all three Harvard men won two, while losing one. Loren Joseph, Steve Hobbs, and Walter Vernon fenced for Harvard...
Other luminaries who wandered through the party in various stages of pregame revelry were Vernon Jordan, director of the Urban League. Willy Wood, John Madden, coach of the Oakland Raiders (he looks like a Boston cop), and Curt Gowdy, Dan Simpson, and the rest of the NBC news team...
...read with interest your piece "A Glimmer of Light?" about drug treatment [Dec. 11]. I also agree with Psychiatrist Vernon Patch that the chances of remaining drug free after leaving most institutions hardly ever amount to more than...