Word: compartmentalism
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The phone rings in the front office in the basement of Grays Hall. A tape recorder switches on as a woman picks up the line. "Why don't you wait in the booth, sir," she says. "We'll send one over as soon as we can." She turnes to her...
The equipment was only two years old and already showed signs of neglect. Toilets that the Chinese once scrubbed meticulously were now subjected to desultory and occasional swabbings by Tanzanian and Zambian workers. The dining car was clean but cramped and hot; its $2.50 menu, passengers joked, included only two...
When you look for all these things, though, you'll probably be looking at them from over the airwaves, because spacious Fenway Park (the only American League park that doubles as a glove compartment in the off-season) is sure to be sold out. Saturday's and Sunday's games...
People who live on wheels constitute an American subculture. In spirit they seem first cousins to the pioneers-except that the next horizon does not promise rich bottom land or gold. Still, there are rewards along the way. Some business couples, like the Crowthers from San Diego, live year round...
With a steady outlet for his drawings in The New Yorker and the newspaper PM, Steinberg almost at once set out to see the U.S. coast to coast by train. "Driving is no substitute for the view from the sleeping compartment. The window is like a screen. To arrive at...