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...Saigon have dubbed it the strategy of the periphery. In plain terms, it is hit-and-run for the nearest border-Laos, Cambodia or North Viet Nam -where the lethal arm of U.S. power cannot pursue. The result is likely to be more and more border warfare, from the year-long face-off along the DMZ to recent battles like those for Loc Ninh two weeks ago and for Dak To last week-both of which resulted in major Communist defeats...
...After a year-long study, the faculty of Yale's undergraduate college last week voted to drop its present 40-to-100 numerical grading (60 is passing). Starting immediately professors instead will give one of four possible scores: fail, pass, high pass or honors. While many schools now give students a choice of taking a few courses on a pass-or-fail basis, Yale is the nation's first major university to abandon specific grading for undergraduate courses...
...cruelest fact of all is that, even if she found a job that barely paid her way, once she left she could not return. The kibbutz--which requires a year-long trial for prospective members--allows its members a one-year sabbatical, but to take more would mean forfeiting membership. Despite her sense of stagnation, Naomi finds more than home and family at Ayeleth. It has been her way of life: a philosophy and social order not easily shed...
...killing all eight passengers and the pilot. The passengers--all of them American educators--were conducting a survey on behalf of the Agency for International Development on public universities in South Vietnam. The plane crash occurred only a week before the educators were scheduled to return home from their year-long study...
Reedy Skittering. That is only one of the handicaps Adler has faced over the years. In 1949, after he was accused of being a Communist sympathizer, he went into professional exile from the U.S., making London his concert, TV and recording base as well as his home.* Except for a year-long sojourn in 1959, he has returned only for occasional engagements since...