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...fair's board of directors that ground will be broken for 75 more within a couple of months. On opening day, April 22, 1964, there will be more than 200 pavilions in all. Judging by the renderings and models already on view, Flushing Meadow will be a maze of pleasure domes, some dazzling, some merely elaborate. Among them: »THE FEDERAL PAVILION, a hollow square hovering over a watery circle designed...
...hear some people tell it, a modern U.S. military man should study Kafka as well as Clausewitz, since the terrain he must now operate in is more like Kafka's maze than Clausewitz's certainties. In a day of allies, proxy battles and limited wars, the military needs a whole new technical arsenal-politics, diplomacy, science, economics-to enable it to employ precise degrees of power in imprecise situations. All this asks of U.S. officers unprecedented competence, character and wisdom...
...Dumbwaiter and The Collection, by Harold Pinter. In these two one-acters, Britain's most provocative dramatist puts his characters in an enigmatic rat's maze where they twist, turn and stumble, seeking each other and the truth with absurd and terrifying results...
...transactions involving $200 million in U.S. currency. At the same time, many of its clients are Southeast Asian businessmen who are free to do business with Red China. (Since Hang Seng deals with the U.S., it cannot itself, under U.S. Treasury regulations, have dollar dealings with Peking.) Through a maze of companies as intricate as an ancient Chinese ivory carving. Hang Seng's chiefs move quickly in and out of speculations in everything from autos and duck feathers to rice and real estate. Smiles one Hang Seng executive: "Our ventures are calculated, very calculated risks...
Last Year at Marienbad. The French New Wave, which has saltily subsided, nevertheless flung up the intellectual sensation of the year, a tour de force of cubistic cinema in which Director Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour) dismantles reality and reassembles it in a monstrous maze whose exit is its entrance...