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...today are still sealed behind a high fence of yellow plastic panels, like a Berlin Wall of environmental quarantine. Every 20 feet a posted sign warns: CONTAMINATED AREA. NO ADMITTANCE. Some of the telephone lines leading to the shuttered houses lie slack in lush summer growths of hydrangea that bloom unattended. But no matter, because the phones never ring any more. Two years after the disaster known as "Italy's Hiroshima," the core of Seveso is a dead community, and no one knows when-if ever-it will become habitable again...
Just as the Saints once made the desert bloom through honeybee-like enterprise, so have they made their church into the biggest, richest, strongest faith ever born on U.S. soil. It has grown fourfold since World War II to 4 million members, including 1 million outside the U.S. Church income is rumored to exceed $1 billion a year, though Kimball insists it is "much less than that...
...backdrop is Wales, with wild flowers in brilliant bloom. And in the foreground is another vision of natural beauty: Katharine Hepburn. If she looks a bit like some high-spirited English school mistress, that's because she is. On location for a television remake of Broadway's 1940 success, The Corn Is Green, Hepburn is cast as the indefatigable Miss Moffat, a sturdy spinster who moves to a Welsh mining town and opens a school. The man in the director's chair is close friend George Cukor, 79, the grand old master who guided Hepburn through nine...
...Bloom in the Cheeks
...your article on Mae West [May 22]: she says drinking puts spots on your skin. Well, if Mae West is still Mae West, how could she forget to mention the greatest way to maintain your skin and put a bloom in your cheeks...