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...queen-size bed with an upholstered maroon headboard into which a clock radio has been fitted. Above the headboard on a yellow wall hangs a huge novelty $1,000 bill, with Mallory's face where Grover Cleveland's would be. Beside the bed is a phone with a lock on the dial. "They want to use it," says Mallory, "they have...
...traditional board game. Gone are such dinosaurs as "Operation!" "Tiddly-Winks" and "Chutes and Ladders." Child World promotes only a few games, like "Scrabble," "Parcheesi" and "Trouble"; the first two are presented both in traditional form and in "deluxe editions." The yuppie fave "Scrabble Deluxe" features raised spaces which lock the letters in place, presumably so that your $1000 Lhasa Apso does not meander by and mess up the game. As much as I can tell, "Deluxe Parcheesi" appears to be a contradiction in terms: you could play that game with pebbles and a dirt surface, for Christ's sake...
...Lawrence Seaway, where grain and industrial goods leave the American and Canadian heartland on the way to destinations around the world. Last week the artery linking Lake Ontario and Lake Erie was suddenly choked off when a concrete wall in one of the Welland Canal's eight locks collapsed. A section of lock No. 7 slammed into the side of the Liberian-registered Furia, a ship carrying 16,000 tons of wheat from Milwaukee to Alexandria, Egypt. Nine other vessels were trapped inside the canal; 21 were stranded on the Lake Ontario side waiting to enter; an additional eight coming...
Eight hours after the wall collapsed, workers refilled lock No. 7 so the Furia could be floated out of the rubble. Gigantic braces were then installed to shore up what remained of the canal's retaining wall, and engineers assessed the damage. Authorities said that repairs could take between three and four weeks. Owners lose between $5,000 and $20,000 a day operating idle, loaded vessels, and some of them began furloughing crews and tying up their ships. Meanwhile, port directors feared that seaway customers might switch to East Coast and Gulf ports in the future. Said Duluth, Minn...
...looks like a table of contents in which Calvino reveals that what had seemed like a zigzag wandering from beach to shop to zoo is actually a highly formalized pattern. Calvino assigns to each chapter a combination of the numbers one, two, and three, like the combination of a lock. Each number corresponding to a different kind of experience. Yet even as he lets the Reader peek into the control room of the observatory, Calvino is playing games. At the end of this story of a man trying to order the world, Calvino unveils an ordering of the story itself...