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...Freeport, Me., flea market when his eye caught an old photograph of some 2,000 Protestant ministers. He bought the picture and took it back to his Brooklyn studio. Looking at it with a magnifying glass, he marveled at the tack-sharp faces and the lack of dis tortion at the ends of the long horizontal photograph. "It suddenly occurred to me," says Dantzic, "that I had no camera in my studio that could do that." After more than a year of inquiries, he found and borrowed the camera he wanted-a turn-of-the-century model called the Cirkut...
Carter faces a unique situation that would have sorely tried any other President. This is caused not just by the widely remarked post-Watergate dis trust of the presidency and, perhaps, of all authority. It is also brought about by the lack of consensus, or at least of working majorities, on most social and economic issues, especially among the Democrats. From Franklin Roosevelt to Lyndon Johnson, the Democratic Party, representing the country's political majority (Eisenhower was elected largely for personality reasons), knew more or less what it wanted to do in the domestic arena. Right or wrong, there...
...American elm tree, probably more than 100 years old and planted in the days of Rutherford B. Hayes, was hopelessly infected with Dutch elm dis ease. It was not the first of the elder giants to succumb, and it is not likely to be the last. But this tree - No. 75 on a White House landscape plan - was special...
...dozen years and better than a dozen pictures apiece, a couple of strong film characters, American arche types. Nowadays this is a rarer and perhaps more valuable achievement than making a string of perfect movie master pieces. These heroes?larger than ones found in ordinary life, but not entirely dis connected from it either?are not made in a single film. They grow out of a lot movies and eventually turn them all into mere incidents in the larger and more absorbing drama of the star career. Consider Eastwood's moralistic killer, whose cold eyes...
...fact is that Chatworth's American schooling has left him rather ignorant. He must attend a "crammers," a seedy institution where a man named Jenkins teaches techniques for passing exams. Henceforth, Chatworth is pre pared to "Jenkins" his way through life. Everywhere but at Oxford, where, he dis covers, "you can't exactly Jenkins Oxford, because Oxford invented Jenkins. The whole system is a web of shortcuts so intricate they constitute an education...