Word: colorable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the search for a vice-presidential candidate provided the one remaining element of preconvention suspense, Carter found time for less solemn chores. He jumped from a leisurely fish fry in Plains (see color facing page) to a busy round of highly successful fund-raising affairs. They included a $1,000-per-couple lawn buffet in a tent in Asheville, N.C.; a $250-per-plate breakfast in Milwaukee; a $100-per-person cocktail party in New York's Waldorf-Astoria. He made similar stops in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington, Houston and Chicago. The net result: Carter wiped out his remaining...
...first black union organizers, Richard Davis, to demonstrate how later middle-class blacks such as Booker T. Washington--who once said that trade unionism was "that form of slavery which prevents a man from selling his labor to whom he pleases on account of his color"--were not the sole representatives of blacks. Again, he says that while Washington has had his biographers and critics, "the world of men like Richard Davis awaits its historian...
...newest glory of the cathedral is its third and final rose window (see color), which was installed earlier this year. The window, 26 ft. in diameter, is the work of Virginia Artist Rowan Le-Compte, 51, who was enthralled during a chance visit to the cathedral when he was 14 and decided to teach himself the techniques of stained glass. His subsequent career as an artist included many stained-glass commissions, and in 1971 the cathedral assigned him the rose window. Because it is deeply recessed and in shade much of the time, LeCompte used chipped nuggets of thick glass...
...where all the shooting was, detailed maps drawn at the time are the only satisfactory way to get one's bearings. In this broad, rich book, Cartography Expert Nebenzahl has collected 54 maps of battle sites and cities, seacoasts and ship-filled harbors, and reproduced them in full color at great size (some map spreads are 15 in. by 20 in.). Beautiful, faithful and detailed, they are offered with all their original 18th century commentary, plus a column of modern explanatory text describing the action step by step...
...small for Viking's cameras to perceive. It is these life forms that Viking's ingenious biology laboratory is designed to seek out. Eight days after the landing-an interval during which Viking will monitor Martian weather and seismology and shoot the mission's first color pictures-the ingeniously conceived and packaged laboratory (which occupies about a cubic foot of space) will begin operating. The surface sampler, a power-shovel-like bucket, will be extended from Viking by a boom that can reach 10 ft. It will scoop up a sample of Martian soil, which will then...