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...sauvages (wild campers) number about 50,000. They are a particular irritation to police, since they will pitch a tent illegally in a parking lot, on a piece of highly desirable beach or even, as one did, on a shady traffic island in the middle of Cannes. Typical is Axel Koenigs, a young West German bank employee who drove to the Côte d'Azur with two friends. After trying 40 campgrounds without luck (and meantime sleeping in his Volkswagen), he invaded a freshly cut hayfield. Says he: "Since there is no possibility to find solitude, we intend...
...spent four months on the staff of Bild Zeitung (circ. 4.8 million), West Germany's largest and most lurid daily. His just-published book, arguing that the paper distorts the news, faces a court action by Bild's owner, the firm of right-wing Publisher Axel Springer. But the book seems destined for the bestseller lists...
...Blair Axel '76, one of the youngest stall-dwellers, envisions Widener as both the scholar's idea of a home and Mrs. Widener's idea of a temple of knowledge. "It's really Siberia down there," Axel said last week. He estimated that he spent 10-12 hours a day inside a C-level stall while working on his thesis which deals with the founding of The Nation, an intellectual journal of the post-Civil War period. "The walls are bedrock. I sat there shivering and turning pages. The only problem was falling asleep." He laughed, "I haven't been...
...night when he was pulling what he likes to refer to as "cold turkey" in Widener, Axel "overstudied" and, failing to hear the announcements of closing time, got locked inside the building. By the time Axel reached the fourth-floor checkout desk the library was completely dark and quiet; he could hear his heels clicking against the cold floor. Axel said he was scared but couldn't bring himself to call for help. "It was 21 years of conditioning versus my fears for survival." The fears won. An elderly janitor found Axel and let him out. Now the student still...
...Axel concluded that Widener is a "world in itself. The reading room is the living room. The catalogue room is the kitchen or pantry. The stacks are where you know you go to work." A vision of life. But it is in a certain sense a vision of order. Maybe Mrs. Widener would have approved after...