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GILES GOAT-BOY, by John Barth. A labyrinth of intellectual booby traps leads into the deadpan center of a "university," which is Earth's metaphor for a mad, mad, mad world...
Behind that myth is a backstage world that matches the dream in technological terms. It is a world within worlds, a vast labyrinth of shops-carpentry, electrical, wig, prop, tailor, paint-two ballet studios, 20 rehearsal rooms (three of them as large as the main stage), 14 dressing rooms for principal singers, and hangar-sized chambers capable of storing the sets for all 23 of the Met's productions this season. For the singers, accustomed to the Stygian confines of the old Met, it was like being turned loose in Wyoming; so many of them got lost...
...Winkle Them Out." The American reinforcements will have the benefit of some U.S. preparations. Twelve U.S. Special Forces camps have already been set up in the Delta. The U.S. Navy patrols its 2,500-mi. labyrinth of rivers and canals with 71 PT-type boats and three hovercraft. Along the coast, patrol boats of the Navy's Operation Market Time have cut down on Communist gunrunning. As elsewhere, it will be difficult to separate friend from foe-demonstrated last week when U.S. Air Force jets strafed and bombed a Delta hamlet near the village of Truong Trung...
...foliage is the cover for a V.C. truck-or the product of a jungle spring. A one-eighth-inch telephone wire strung across a jungle clearing can betray the location of an enemy field-communications system; a jungle trail that suddenly peters out can pinpoint the entrance to a labyrinth of V.C. tunnels; a road that goes nowhere can lead the photo interpreters to a hidden oil dump. It requires infinite patience. "A road ends at a river where the ferryboat has been sunk by bombing," says Captain John Irwin, a Recce Tech officer. "Where is the new ferryboat...
...proved a mighty mandate. The U.S. welfare system is an all but impenetrable labyrinth of overlapping, interlocking, and often competing programs. Some 200 federal projects administered by 21 federal agencies are involved in the poverty war. In the area of manpower and development alone, seven federal departments have their own programs. When it wrote the poverty bill, Congress had a chance to streamline the machinery and thereby spare Shriver some of the interdepartmental bickering that has plagued him. But Congress muffed the opportunity-in part because of Lyndon Johnson's whipcracking impatience to get on with the Great Society...