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Carol Wallace Effingham...
...quarters on March 16 with a production of Hamlet with Albert Finney in the title role, the occasion will mark both the end and the beginning of an impossibly protracted dream. The first serious proposal for a national theater was made in 1848 by a London publisher named Effingham Wilson. As long ago as 1938, Bernard Shaw had actually secured the deeds for a prospective national theater site...
...computerized voter lists. But Reagan, who signed up a campaign committee chairman in each of the state's 236 cities and towns by last December, seems to have an edge in reaching his quarry. "We do our politicking in the kitchen," explains Reagan Chairman Gerard Schacht of Effingham (pop. 338), who prefers neighborly persuasion over coffee to the ringing telephones that can turn voters off. At week's end, in Florida, Ford publicly expressed a view that aides said he had long held in private. Apparently to counter Reagan's tough stand on crime, the President told...
Carol Wallace Effingham...
...ending as the eleven jam-packed coaches of the 5:28 from Durban clattered toward suburban Effingham Junction Station. The cars carried 1,200 blacks returning from their jobs in the city to crowded Kwa Mashu, the native "location" ten miles away. Suddenly, reported an observer, "as I looked along the track, I saw the electric unit at the tail end topple over." With it came the train's last passenger compartment, bouncing like a toy over the jagged fill of the roadbed...