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...rhetoric on the other side has the epic calm of sociological jargon. Partisans of compulsory national service look at their plan as a chance to sort, patch and mold human stock. Margaret Mead, the anthropologist, puts it this way: "Universal national service would make it possible to assay the defects and potentialities of every young American on the threshold of adulthood...
Only a sociologist, perhaps, is equipped to digest the mountains of raw data that Lewis' technique produces, to assay the yards of tape, the stenographic interviews, the conscientious catalogues of someone's wardrobe, someone else's orange-crate kitchen shelf. In a foreword, Lewis makes an effort to summarize, for non-sociologists, the book's message. In most ways, this summary is more successful and more illuminating than the ensuing panorama of unbridled...
...Tenth Victim. As in the movie, players are divided into "hunters," who are given the names of their prey, and "victims," who are simply notified that they are on someone's assassination list. One session of the hunt goes on for four days; then the directors assay the kills, award one point if the kill was technically feasible and actually was carried out, two points, if the kill was technically brilliant. However, if the hunter is killed by his victim, he loses one point; if he kills a bystander, he loses two points. The first to win ten points...
With Broadway productions sliding into the summer doldrums, it was the time to assay the season, and the statistics were grim. ONE OF 'WORST' LEGIT SEASONS, headlined Variety, while the New York Times intoned, THE THEATER TODAY: NO PLACE FOR DRAMA. In 52 attempts, 36 shows flopped, ten got into the black, and six are still struggling. Financially, of the $8,097,040 invested, $5,742,863 went down the drain, which does not take into account the six productions financed at $1,156,854 that died before reaching Broadway...
Penny Crash. Windfall had delayed the announcement until it got 35 core samples prepared for assay. But many miners felt that experts like the MacMillans could have seen the core's value, or lack of it, much earlier. Other companies controlled by the MacMillans held 900,000 shares in Windfall-and Canadian law, unlike that in the U.S., does not force company officers to disclose what they have bought or sold. The Toronto Stock Exchange took a close look at Consolidated Golden Arrow Mines Ltd., one of Viola Mac-Millan's companies. At the exchange's request...