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Avoiding or at least postponing military service has become a subtle collegiate art, and for years it has been practised despite grim Selective Service warnings. Yet, each year the maze of Selective Service regulations becomes a little more difficult to negotiate. Policies change, rules are added, and the whims of local draft boards often defy logic. Recognizing these facts, Yale, for the past two years, has offered students the counsel of a civilian military service advisor, a faculty member with extensive knowledge of current Selective Service policies to whom students may go for objective facts and advice. The military service...
...reconstruction of his personal fortune. Just 13 years after his release from Landsberg prison, where he served five years of a seven-year term for using Nazi slave labor in his factories, Flick once again heads Germany's biggest and most powerful industrial empire. He controls an interlocking maze of 156 companies in autos, steel, chemicals and paper whose annual sales total is more than $2 billion -nearly twice that of the Krupp empire. His personal wealth has been set by tax collectors at $400 million, which makes him Germany's wealthiest...
Under the country's maze of white-supremacist apartheid rules, nonwhites may be banished from urban areas to distant villages for a variety of causes. Example: workers who have been in a city for 20 years or more may be sent back home at once if they lose their job. Others, after a lifetime's residence in South Africa, find their wives "endorsed out" * under the new restrictions if the women were born outside South Africa. In western Cape Province alone, 500 men and women are now banished monthly. Even worse is the plight of some...
...Nocturne (opposite), the viewer's eye sweeps past the two somnambulant nudes, is carried across a terrace that is as desolate as the moon, ends up on a lonely mountaintop that looms against an empty sky. In Delvaux's enigmatic world, a street can turn into a maze leading to no one knows where; the manholes that often appear suggest a secret world beneath; a mirror on a sidewalk reflects a world that cannot be seen. Even Delvaux's people seem locked in other worlds and held there in solitary confinement-the ultimate in aloneness. As purely...
...unconscious that showed each man to be a cultural museum filled with ancient wisdoms, beauty and God. "He has," says J. B. Priestley, the gentle anarchist, "cleared a way through dark jungles into blue mountain air. He has discovered at least one way out of the nightmare maze in which modern Western man was beginning to lose himself...