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...membership of more than 10,000 in nearly 700 divisions across South Africa and in Rhodesia as well. Although its initial aim was to promote Afrikaans language, history, culture and education, the Broederbond was soon involved in creating financial, banking and business institutions as a way of mobilizing the meager financial resources of the downtrodden Afrikaners. Today some of these firms-notably Volkskas, Sanlam and Federale Volksbeleggings-are financial giants...
...kids are in the counseling area now, a series of small rooms filled with wooden desks and chairs. They are greeted warmly by the inmate counselors who offer coffee and cigarettes. (Inmates must buy their own coffee and cigarettes but usually insist on sharing their meager supplies.) Small groups form, or, if the youth has visited before, he may move off into a cubicle with an inmate who has befriended him--often because they are from the same neighborhood--and in the course of a few weekly visits a confidence often develops between them. The inmate then becomes the youth...
...year at a Soviet embassy. But as far as most Russians are concerned, the two are nobodies. Galina's name is nowhere to be found in the Bolshoi Opera's special 200th anniversary commemorative book. Slava's entry in the latest edition of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia runs a meager twelve lines. The Soviet press continues to ignore his work abroad, in fear, says Slava, that other musicians might be encouraged to leave the country?or at least to demand greater artistic freedom at home...
...have to walk more than 600 ft. along grubby corridors. Curbside checkin. Baggage carts. One big central terminal with two-level roadway system (upper for boarding, lower for departing). Longest walk: 1,000 ft. Baggage checkout: good. Hotels/Motels: adequate. Three in immediate vicinity, four within 10 min. Amenities: meager. Standard lounges. Main eating facilities: stand-up snack bars in corridors, open 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Only restaurant: Terrace Room, overlooking runways. Six bars open until 10:30 p.m. Shopping facilities: minimal. One barbershop, one beauty shop. First-aid station. Overall: best no-frill people mover...
...competitive position by organization - and recently blue collars have won ascendancy over poorly organized white collars in average salary. In all systems, the factor of supply and demand is at work as an influence if not an iron law - even in show biz. The great majority of performers earn meager sums, primarily because of the excessive supply of aspirants. For them, as Economics Professor Clair Vickery of the University of California's Institute of Industrial Relations in Berkeley puts it, a performing job is like "buying a ticket in a lottery." It mainly feeds the dream of that legendary...