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*The Spirit of '76 - A Biographical Sketch* Laurence Tucker Stallings III was born in Hollywood, California on March 6, 1939 to a movie family, spent his formative years in the Southern California area, and has had a rich and varied life. He fulfilled his military obligation by serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, and then went on to Stanford University as an undergraduate where he was awarded a B.A. degree in Political Science - International Relations Theory. Inspired by the shocking death of President John F. Kennedy, he went back into government service again, and joined the U.S. Peace Corps. His duty completed, once more he went back into academics as a graduate student at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, where he studied Comparative Philosophy, and was awarded an equivalent M.A. degree in Comparative East-West Philosophy, with a specialization in Contemporary European and Indian Philosophy. He then moved to Long Island, New York, and worked full time as a journalist (cultural editor and news correspondent) for the Moniebogue Press, a regional newspaper in Westhampton Beach for almost a year, in order to save money for a permanent move to Germany. And there he has remained (T?bingen - 1974) ever since, starting a second life, and putting down new roots. Still active at the German-American Institute after all these years (25), he is now basking in the bliss, or afterglow, of a semi-retired life...