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...arrival at Fort Jackson to start his two-year enlistment, today's recruit is treated in considerate ways that would have astonished G.I.s of the past. For example, the recruit is quickly outfitted by tailors who make on-the-spot adjustments. Instead of being shorn like a lamb, the trainee can give precise orders on how his hair should be cut, as long as it does not touch his ears or collar. He dines in a style that used to be reserved for officers...
...money worries, insomnia, angst, neuroticism and neglect of liver and lungs. Their new-found route to tranquillity is yoga. Long regarded as a freak clique, yoga practitioners in virtually every community in the country, from suburb to ghetto, Y.M.C.A.s to churches and American Legion halls, are discovering that yoga, shorn of incantatory mysticism, is a highly practical way to relax tensions, tone up the physique, reduce the embonpoint and turn off tranquilizers, cholesterol-laden food, even smoking and drinking. In short, yoga, no longer an ogre, is rapidly becoming as much a part of American life as organic apple...
...press reports the only sources of information on the war front. Eyewitness accounts, once shorn of the rather rich vernacular imagery, do point to marked disarray among colonial forces in sharp contrast to FRELIMO's high morale and that movement's inexorable march to political independence...
...Fissures. Meanwhile, new fissures were opened in the Administration's policy façade by Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, who last week called for a return to voluntary wage-price restraints. Burns also urged restoration of a Cost of Living Council shorn of enforcement powers but able to bring the pressure of public opinion on corporations and unions seeking exorbitant increases. Such proposals run directly counter to the views of the President, who is opposed to even the mildest Government intervention to moderate wage-price boosts...
...Shorn of hope, power, possessions, he experienced a serene vision of life. Good and evil exist, he concluded. Man knows one from another and even under terrible stress can sometimes find the courage to act upon his knowledge...