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This Real Night, the first of the six, seems a fit beginning to West's posthumous career, smoothly bridging past and future. The novel is a sequel to The Fountain Overflows (1956), the chronicle of a shabby-genteel family in turn-of-the-century London. A third volume, to be published later, will complete the trilogy West planned to call Cousin Rosamund: A Saga of the Century. The subtitle radiates the same kind of old-fashioned hubris that led Wells to write The Outline of History; the continuation of West's saga shows how thoroughly her grasp matched her reach...
DIED. Robert W. Woodruff, 95, former president and chairman of Coca-Cola, whose active association with the company spanned six decades until his retirement from the board last year, and whose leadership built a debt-ridden, one-product soda-fountain business into a giant multinational, making Coke a favorite in all but a few countries and merely one of the company's 250 products, which included flavor essences, citrus drinks and coffee; in Atlanta. Woodruff was also a prodigious philanthropist who gave away an estimated $350 million, much of it anonymously, to medicine, the arts and education...
Last week a crowd of some 1,800 people, mostly black, gathered in front of the same church to reenact the march. Nattily dressed in a blue blazer, Jackson noted some changes: "Twenty years ago, we could not drink water from a fountain when we were thirsty. We could not use the rest room when we had the urge." Yet, Jackson declared, "we stand here today because of unfinished business." Wilbert Thigman, a municipal worker who bears a scar on his arm as a result of the 1965 march, said conditions in Selma are much better now. A job then...
...This fountain is the first of its kind in the world, and we want to be very careful and deliberate so as not to hurt anyone," said Oommen, adding that he expects the fountain to be fully functional by next winter...
...fountain, which was designed last year by Peter Walker, former chairman of the Landscape Architecture Program at the Graduate School of Design, is endowed by its donor for six hours of running time a day, according to Oommen. Oommen did not comment on the amount of money saved or lost due to the fountain's inactivity over the winter...