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...Mstislav Rostropovich and is magnificent. There are other great institutions: the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian museums, the National Theater, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden - all intelligently run, all national showpieces. Nor is the feeling of these places monumental and distant. One of the white blades of the National Gallery's East Building is tinged brown about three feet up from the grass, where kids could not resist grasping the stone...
...major institutional changes are not going to take place in the near future, and unless we master the needs of the presidency in the near future, there may not be a distant future...
Equally perplexing, since scientists figure Saturn should have cooled off ages ago, the planet is radiating more heat back into space than it receives from the distant sun. What is the source of this mysterious energy? Perhaps the most tantalizing question concerns Titan, Saturn's largest satellite (even bigger than Mercury) and the only moon in the solar system with a thick atmosphere. Could it harbor organic molecules, the precursors of life...
Ogden has covered more than 80,000 miles in 27 states with the candidate since January. He observes: "The same fellow who can be very cool and distant in Washington takes on almost a new persona on the campaign trail. He can get very excited." A veteran of the Ford-Dole campaign in 1976, Ogden says that his stint with Carter has been "a great deal more intense. When he does campaign, Carter throws everything into...
...benefit from the country's deepening conservative mood. A few months ago, G.O.P. leaders spoke euphorically of winning control of the Senate and perhaps even the House. Now they talk more soberly of winning control of the Senate in 1984 and the House at some time in the distant future...