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...small yellow school bus with Texas license plates arrives as early as 6:45 a.m. at the Kincaid farm in Palmyra and whisks a load of children to the church, where they are fed breakfast. Those who need it are given a bath, then the teachers read stories and teach them songs. "We make home visits and try to build a relationship with the parents," says Head Start's Juan Cortes, an ex-migrant who spent his first summer in the fields at the age of four. Still, Cortes acknowledges, few parents visit their children's class, except...
Some 12,000 competitors and coaches will live two to a room in 3,540 two-and three-bedroom suites. The apartment interiors are strikingly modern in design, and sport natural-wood surfaces, tasteful wallpaper and extra-long beds. Each suite has its own kitchen, balcony and bath. Compared with Montreal, where as many as eleven athletes were crammed into a single apartment, the Moscow facility should be a paradigm of comfort. Security measures should be less obtrusive too. There will be two circles of fencing, and gates will be closely monitored, but armed soldiers will not be perched...
...General Services Administration, the Government's housekeeper, asking that thermostats in all federal buildings be set no lower then 80°. He ended up being too conscientious in Washington's long and sultry summer: high temperatures and humidity have frequently turned the White House into a steam bath...
...slow train back from Bath stops at Salisbury (pronounced Sawlsbry), whose 13th century gothic cathedral boasts the tallest spire in Britain (404 ft.); it tilts 291/2 in. to the southwest. The cathedral houses the best-preserved of only four original copies of the Magna Carta, and the country's oldest working clock, which first tolled time around...
...restaurants serve local dishes and good fish. Seaside hotels charge from $45 to $60 a day, double occupancy; each has its own tennis courts, pool and beach. At family hotels and pensions along the 85-mile-long coast, rates are as low as $20 for a double room with bath. There is a lively night life, and car rentals cost only about $9 a day. Gozo, reached by ferry from Malta, is said to be Homer's Ogygia, the isle where Calypso beguiled Odysseus. It is full of small, stone villages and semideserted beaches, and has a hotel, Ta Cenc...