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...country is to bicycle through it. Vermont Bicycle Touring in Bristol has devised 74 different rural bike trips lasting from a weekend to 16 days and suited to riders of all degrees of proficiency; nights are spent in small country inns. Wisconsin has two of the nation's finest rural bike trails: the Elroy-Sparta (30 miles long) and the Sugar River (23 miles), which are laid out on paved-over railbeds and are barred to cars and motorcycles; the grade never exceeds...
...Xanadu, once upon a memory, Kubla Khan did a stately pleasure-dome decree. Some centuries later, Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia set out to fill a comparable palace in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) with Europe's finest paintings and artifacts. The result is now called the State Hermitage Museum, and it has one of the world's best and most encyclopedic collections, though it is also cluttered with much second-rate stuff. The Soviets have been reluctant to lend their treasures. Two years ago, Art Collector Armand Hammer, who is also chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp...
...each year, being completely dependent on fuel oil for the generation of electricity over the 40-year life of the plant and having no provision for the use of any other fuel--should be constructed on Brookline Avenue in the middle of a group of some of the finest hospitals in the world to supply electricity to those hospitals. The construction of such a plant is even more inconceivable when the public utility, Edison, is already utilizing nuclear energy for the generation of 30 per cent of the electricity supplied to its customers and will, within several years, be utilizing...
...astronauts returned to earth, and has since written dozens of space stories on subjects as diverse as Skylab, extraterrestrial intelligence and proposals to colonize the moon. "Space exploration," Golden says, "shows human beings in their finest moments-adventuring, dreaming and looking to the future." As we went to press three days before the Russian and American lift-offs, all hands here hoped that the mission would take place on schedule-and safely...
...Philadelphia group can be considered atypical at all it would have to be in its relation to President Bok. In Philadelphia, where Mark Twain once said they ask you first who your parents are, Bok comes with the finest credentials. Both Bok and Curtis, his middle name, are synonymous with Philadelphia high society in everything from publishing (Curtis Publishing) to music (Curtis Institute) to art patronage. "Everybody knows he had his roots here," Hecksher says. And when Bok spoke in Philadelphia several years ago, Philadelphia's. Hecksher recalls, "welcomed him with open arms," with a turnout of more than...