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...legislation was the bill that created the U.S.'s twelfth Cabinet agency, the Department of Transportation. Swayed as much by the exigencies of leaving town and lobbyists' pressures as by legislative logic, the Congress in effect ignored sea transport, voted to keep the Maritime Administration out of DOT and leave the agency in its present autocratic limbo within the Department of Commerce. The President strongly disapproved of Congress' inaction on the Maritime Administration, but he signed the bill at week...
Gold & Ostriches. South Africa is a land of bright sun and haunting beauty. Fine wine grapes grow in the protected valleys in the southwest, while elephant, rhino and springbok range the high savanna of Kruger National Park in the northeast. Ostrich farms dot the harsh, baked landscape beneath the kopjes (flat-topped hills) of the Great Karroo, where two centuries ago Dutch trekboers lived in small nomadic communi ties. South of the Kalahari Desert is the high veld, a great, green, grassy plateau where cattle and sheep graze in endless herds. On the Indian Ocean's shore...
...pretty quaint to recall that Franklin P. Adams said: "Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net." Today's middle-agers not only dot the greens, they vault the net. They sail, ski, waterski, skin-dive and spelunk. They swim, walk and climb. They fish, hunt, camp and swarm all over the great outdoors from Big Sur to Cape Cod. They are a participating rather than a spectator generation...
...next month, art exhibitions will begin to dot the walls of Harvard's common rooms and hallways. Dozens of concerts, ranging from German choral music to Soviet jazz, and about 15 films--student produced, "experimentals," and artistic treasures that even the Brattle doesn't show--will be presented. And an array of dinners, discussions, and debates has been scheduled to intensify Harvard's artistic consciousness. In short, the College is about to be assailed by five separate arts festivals...
Foley has a two-year contract to write music for Mills Inc., who have published his recently released song "Hello and Goodbye" appearing on the Dot label. Two other Foley originals, "I'll Go My Way" and "Suddenly I'm Warm" are soon to be published...