Punctuating his memoir are snapshots of events that shaped the post WW-II world. This is an account of a young emigrant to the U.S. who applied to an Ivy League college simply on mistaken recognition of the name 'Dartmouth'. The few short years there and the answer to a surprisingly simple question: "How much time do you waste every day?" affected much else in his life on four continents, adventure, cartography, journalism, urban affairs, high-tech...