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...perform surgery on the contents of a food parcel, to count skulls in the numbered cubicles where prisoners contemplate their anonymity. As a meaningful human drama, it has a point of view. Night Watch deepens the adventure of an underground escape route by saying that a man can scrape, scratch, hammer and claw his way to freedom from everything but himself...
Washday Rolls. The first problem is getting seed capital. American banks are usually not interested in helping, and foreign bankers tend to shun the little man in favor of big companies. Many beginners have to scrape deep to supply their own capital; others are forced to borrow on a short-term basis at interest rates that range from 18% to 25%. These charges, plus high import duties on American-made equipment, make many foreign ventures much more expensive to set up than similar ones...
...bitterly about the tangle of bureaucratic red tape and the unintelligible tax laws. German bureaucrats "sit in their little chairs and become little kings," says Expatriate Charles Immler, who runs a small office-cleaning business. "All the Germans bow to them, but I am not one who likes to scrape and bow." In Latin America, some expatriate Americans find that bill paying is as casual as the climate...
...avail. Last week President-elect Leoni, a dour, unimaginative party politician, rejected Caldera's final offer for coalition. With that, Caldera announced that COPEI would now go into opposition, would pursue an independent course of "autonomy of action." Leoni scrambled among the other parties, tried to scrape up a tenuous four-party coalition that would give A.D. a majority in Congress. But few Venezuelans were willing to bet that any new coalition would last much beyond inauguration...
Banks, Base. The World Trade Center will scrape the sky 1,3531 ft. above an area where nearly every other building is topped with turret, lantern and steeple. The question is not whether it should be modern (it has to be) but whether it is the kind of modern that lives with its surroundings. Yamasaki has avoided the acres-of-glass look, has instead invested the two towers with traceries of stainless steel arches in his familiar style, around the base and again just below the gently beveled roof line. Some people may yet feel that it is too stark...