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...advantages of the early registration plan are so evident it is surprising it hasn't long been in effect. The Army will now have a clearer idea of the strength of the manpower pool. Because young men will know their draft status more than three months before actual drafting, they will be able to plan with more certainty for the future. Coupled with adequate voluntary correction programs, the early registration system can become an important part of the President's promised attack on poverty...
...reciprocate. In a sense, it was curious that more East Berliners did not try to break out. To hear the West Berliners tell it last week, the contrast they found with their living standards in West Berlin was appalling. Nowhere did the disparity between East and West come clearer than at the crossing points themselves. West Berliners cruised through the Wall in gleaming Volkswagens and Mercedeses or walked across warmly clad in fur coats, bright Bogner ski pants and ruddy complexions. The East Berliners who greeted them looked grey and chunky by contrast in their long, drab overcoats and Russian...
...natural order, he said, "keep your subject close to the beginning of your sentence" and "keep your verb as close to its object as possible." Avoid too many verbs; evoke the reader's imagination. "The fewer the words that can be made to convey an idea, the clearer and the more forceful that idea." Not We walked down the main street, which was very long, but We walked down the long main street...
President Kennedy's death has made it clearer than ever that the vice-President must be equipped to take over instantly as chief executive, retaining the trust of his predecessor's advisers and supporters--in short, he must himself be of Presidential calibre. Yet men of great abilities will continue to turn down the vice-Presidency if it remains the job it is today. The man who is theoretically the nation's second highest-ranking official earns his pay simply by presiding over the Senate once in a while, by attending Cabinet and National Security Council meetings, and by doing...
Tracing her death to philosophy, or sex, or confusion demands a clearer characterization than the movie offers. The philosophic explanation presents Nana as fantastically sensitive, young Nietzschean who gains fulfillment in a self-styled artistic ("Everything's beautiful") rebellion. Like the Joan of Arc she cries over in a movie, Nana dies a martyr's death...