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...Railroad to test workers involved in accidents as well as those returning from furlough. More important, the Supreme Court last week refused to hear the appeal of five jockeys that random tests for drug and alcohol abuse violated their rights. A lower court had upheld the testing on the ground that jockeys are voluntary participants in an industry that must curry the confidence of bettors by assuring drug-free races. The Reagan Administration hopes that the courts will apply that reasoning to workers in sensitive government jobs. Says Richard Willard, head of the Justice Department's Civil Division: "People...
...record levels. This year even minor storms may cause major damage. Those who live along the shores of what constitutes the largest body of fresh water in the world are trying desperately to protect their property, dumping sandbags in front of their homes, even moving entire houses to higher ground. Erie, the shallowest lake, has grown especially dangerous as waves several feet high smash against homes. "We haven't had water levels like this since we started keeping records in 1860," says Philip Keillor, of the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. "And we've done a lot of building...
...beauty of some things prevails even in an age of overexposure. Châteaux of the Loire (Vendome; 152 pages; $45) is a splendid case in point. Photographer Daniel Philippe has looked again at 19 of these fairyland fortresses, both from the sky and the ground, in snow and in bloom. There is formidable Chambord, which may have been planned by Leonardo da Vinci, and delicate Azay-le-Rideau, the creation of a banker who went too far when he mixed state money with his own. The aerial exposures suggest that some of the châteaux were designed for the eyes...
...screen" and not much more from Paramount, where he made nearly a quarter of his films and no strong impression. He was noticed opposite Mae West and Marlene Dietrich, but it was in 1936, on a loan-out for an RKO flop, Sylvia Scarlett, that he finally "felt the ground under his feet," as George Cukor, the film's director, would put it. He played a type he had known in his past, a Cockney con man with a chipper way of expressing a gloomy view of human nature. Here, for the first time, he achieved that quicksilver quality that...
White and black South Africans who believe that racial change is inevitable had hoped to demonstrate in Natal that apartheid could be dismantled by ballots rather than bullets. The province, although it has a low proportion of whites, seemed an auspicious testing ground. Relations between the 569,000 whites, 6 million blacks, 675,000 Indians and 95,000 mixed-raced coloreds are better than in South Africa's three other provinces. A majority of Natal's whites are of British background and are generally regarded as more liberal on racial issues than Dutch-descended Afrikaners. Moreover, many whites respect...