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Here are examples of what passes these days for communication across the color line: In Tamarac, Fla., a 20-year-old black cook was questioned by police for 45 minutes after officials at the bank where he wanted to open an account reported that he planned to rob it. In New York City a rumor that a soft drink sold in poor neighborhoods had been secretly manufactured by the Ku Klux Klan to make blacks sterile worked so well that sales plummeted 70%. And a University of Chicago survey of racial attitudes found that 3 out of 4 whites believe...
CATHERINE THE GREAT: TREASURES OF IMPERIAL RUSSIA: Memphis Cook Convention Center, Memphis. Almost 300 items from the era of the 18th century Czarina, including court costumes, an embroidered war tent, bejeweled snuff boxes, saintly icons and a newly restored gilded coronation carriage. Through Sept...
...Dreesmans, as for most farm families whose children scatter, the Christmas holidays meant a time of reunion. So it was that on Dec. 30, 1987, Agnes Dreesman, a superb cook and flower arranger who frequently contributed culinary and horticultural creations to church and garden-club benefits, readied their house for a celebration. Marilyn, widowed in 1984, had flown in from Honolulu with the three grandchildren. Robert too would be home for dinner...
Antarctica has long been viewed as the remotest of continents, buried beneath millions of tons of snow and ice, miles from its nearest neighbor, and "doomed by nature . . . never once to feel the warmth of the sun's rays," in the words of 18th century explorer Captain James Cook. Even scientists studying the way the earth looked hundreds of millions of years ago have tended to ignore this solitary landmass. So it came as a surprise to many researchers last week when a pair of American geologists reported that Antarctica may not always have been so distant. In fact, about...
...playing around the Washington area, where she was reared; she was doing a set in Baltimore just two weeks after her daughter Rainy was born in 1962. "I was commuting, having a good time," she remembers. But she had "a young baby, a home to keep, a husband to cook meals for. Then when Rainy was about 11, 12 years old, I felt she needed me. And I guess I needed her. So I slowed down a little...