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schooner R/V (for research vessel) West ward is heading for water only three fathoms deep. Exams or not, the students are needed on the double to lower some 7,000 sq. ft. of sail so Westward will be moving slowly as it leaves the safety of deep water. The sophomores and juniors, drawn from two dozen U.S. colleges, drop their pens and scramble to their stations, some grabbing halyards on deck, others swinging into the ratlines 20 ft. above...
...familiar scene aboard the teak-decked, 250-ton Westward, an oceanographic ship that for the past eight years has plowed the oceans for some 280 days each year as a school afloat...
...five Soviet divisions in Afghanistan raised ominous questions about Moscow's strategic intentions. Two of the mechanized divisions were positioned in western Afghanistan, and more troops were on their way there. In addition, two to three other divisions still in the U.S.S.R. were said to have moved westward toward the Iranian border. To some intelligence analysts in Kabul, the pattern pointed to the possibility of a strike into Iran if the Khomeini regime were to disintegrate...
...most decorated commanders; of pneumonia; in White River Junction, Vt. A West Point graduate, Harmon, better known to his troops as "Old Gravel Voice," commanded the "Hell on Wheels" 2nd Armored Division during the Allied invasion of French North Africa in 1942; the division later halted the Germans' westward plunge in the Battle of the Bulge...
Washington Political Columnist David Broder believes that "we are a nation between clarifying ideas." The endlessly westward-expanding land became a model for the ever booming industrial and technological republic. Now America must formulate a new philosophy that acknowledges the reality, even the desirability, of limitations, of more intelligent, creative, careful use of its endowment. Many believe that a new generation of leaders is now working at the next "clarifying idea." Says former U.S. Commissioner of Education Ernest Boyer: "Conditions are building that will revitalize leadership. People are not willing to live endlessly with ambiguity. There is something within...