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...Tier for Protection. Under the new draft, young men will register upon reaching age 20, serve two years of active duty. The first 4,200 are to be inducted during the latter half of 1965, after which inductions will continue at the rate of 6,900 men a year-which will increase army manpower from 22,750 at present...
...Omphaloskepsis, then, is no longer the métier of only the Buddhists [Oct. 30]. The difference is that instead of regarding our own, we are apt to be concerned with that of our neighbor's wife. But perhaps it is only a passing navelty...
...million people that voted for him? Some may be explained away as life-long party supporters who mark their ballots "Republican" regardless of election, candidate, or issue. But obviously there were others who found something especially appealing about the Senator. Foremost among these were the voters from the tier of Southern states which gave their electoral votes to the Republican candidate; the South clearly bears the mark of identification with Barry Goldwater...
...first days of his campaign were a wild triumphal march. He was swamped on Long Island's beaches by hundreds of thousands of Labor Day weekend bathers. In a three-day swing around "the Southern Tier," he made 51 stops in 21 cities, got such an overwhelming reception that people began to talk about "poor old Ken." In Watertown, he outdrew Keating 45 to 1. In Ogdensburg, where Keating spoke to a lonely knot of 24 listeners, Bobby drew 2,000. In Jamestown, where G.O.P. Vice-Presidential Candidate Bill Miller had a crowd of 250, Bobby lured...
...Pietà's flawless marble is shielded from spectators by an almost invisible Lucite sheet that can deflect a .45-cal. bullet. Visitors are drawn past the Pietà on three tiers of conveyor belts. They have from 60 to 90 seconds to feast on its beauty, unless they take to a fourth, motionless tier 24 feet from the sculpture. Even then, they may not have time to marvel how the Renaissance sculptor made the crucified Christ so anatomically human and so tranquil in following his agonizing death...