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...good when it gets a bad review. Richard Schickel, in reviewing Roots [Jan. 24], finds it incomprehensible that a black American would view all whites as equally responsible for the institution of slavery. But even when New England abolitionists mouthed cliches about the evil of slavery, they would wear cotton clothing, while sitting on furniture handcrafted by slave artisans, eating food cooked by black women. Slavery was an all-pervading fact of American life. All Americans benefited from it. Roots is the most valuable addition to African American literature in the past hundred years...
...with expansion programs. Under the newest five-year plan, approved in September, India will allot $22 billion in public money to increase production in "core" industries, including oil and fertilizers. Liberalization of import controls is bringing in raw materials for export industries and supplies of scarce commodities such as cotton and cooking oil. And, assuming her Congress Party wins the March elections-which it almost surely will-Mrs. Gandhi will have to deal with an unaccustomed problem of plenty: how to distribute surplus food before it rots in the fields...
...folks in the $160 coach seats and the $260 sleepers, however, were not about to wait until they reached Washington to begin celebrating. As the Peanut Special rolled toward Savannah past naked cotton-and cornfields and snow-crowned pine and pecan groves, they partied with a vengeance-almost as if they were reversing General William Tecumseh Sherman's earlier trek across the South. Said Sam Simpson, a grocer from Barnesville, Ga., bedecked with a peanut lei and two peanut bracelets: "My granddaddy told me that hell would freeze over before we'd have a Southerner as President. Well...
...above the main entrance of the cathedral: The Tree of Jesse, The Childhood of Christ and The Passion. The windows were taken down, disassembled piece by piece and sent to a government laboratory outside Paris for testing, then to a Paris atelier for cleaning. The grime was removed with cotton swabs wet with an aqueous solution called E.D.T.A. On went a coat of Viacryl, a synthetic polyurethane resin meant to protect the pocked and flawed surface of the 800-year-old glass. The windows were put back together, re-leaded, and replaced in the wall. And down came an avalanche...
...Corliss steam engine that towered over Machinery Hall. When President Ulysses S. Grant and Emperor Dom Pedro of Brazil turned the levers on May 10, 1876, a festive crowd cheered as the engine set in motion a wonderful as sortment of machines- pumping water, combing wool, spinning cotton, tearing hemp, printing newspapers, lithographing wallpaper, sewing cloth, folding envelopes, sawing logs, shaping wood, making shoes - 8,000 machines spread over 13 acres...