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...painting and plumbing, including the number of inmates per toilet. In Virginia, a federal judge overruled a school-board ban on the publication of a high school poll on birth control; in New Mexico, a judge ruled that Mexican American children must have bilingual education. To save a three-inch fish, the snail darter, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a $116 million hydroelectric project in Tennessee...
...Fine Arts and the Harcus Krakow Gallery display a lyric sensibility for which the thrill of the eye on the world's luminous surfaces -- water, sky, foliage,' flesh -- lovingly captured, contains intense emotional value. The photographs were shot with a largeformat view camera whose slow exposures and sizable 8x10 inch prints produce an almost magical sharpness and delicacy of color. All the photographs in the museum, and the majority in the gallery, were taken over two summers at Cape Cod. There, after many years' experience photographing in black and white on the streets of New York, Meyerowitz was struck...
...that carpetbagging foreigners are swallowing up U.S. agricultural land from Georgia to California. To hear many farmers and farm-belt politicians tell it, at least half the population of Europe and maybe a few million Arabs and Japanese are storming ashore, moneybags in hand, to buy every spare square inch of topsoil...
...classes begin for the new semester, a 37-inch blizzard paralyzes New England. Dean Archie C. Epps III, repeating his famous claim that "Harvard University will close only for an act of God, such as the end of the world," announces the University will remain open...
...sure, catalogue vendors lost no money on such stocking stuffers as a $45 sterling silver Perrier bottle opener with two silver bottle caps or a $140 one-inch-high sterling tea set. A $200 King Tut bust was bought by some 7,400 holders of American Express cards. Yves Saint Laurent's Opium perfume, at $100 an ounce, sold like, well, opium. Beverly Hills' David Orgell disposed of all 18 of his catalogue-advertised $750 sterling-silver telephones...