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...American life. In its Promethean ambit of inter ests, its cultural diversity and kinetic verve, the city's heart sets the pace for the rest of the nation, and indeed much of the world. It is an unrivaled func tional framework for finance and busi ness, a rich lode of pleasure, a superb showcase for art, theater, music, fashion. At the same time, the "oceanic amplitude of these great cities," as Walt Whitman rhapsodized in 1870, has cast up a titanic tide of troubles...
...After four weeks of discreet conversations, the negotiators completed the "preliminary articles" of a treaty that conceded all the major U.S. demands and envisioned a nation extending from the Atlantic to the Mississippi and from the Great Lakes to northern Florida-Minnesota, and with it the stupendous Mesabi iron lode, were included by a cartographical accident. On Nov. 30, 1782, the preliminary articles, which for all practical purposes constituted the final document, were signed. Vergennes was promptly informed. He was stunned. But when he protested "the unhappy news," Franklin cheerfully apologized for "neglecting a point of propriety," and then subtly...
DONOVAN: CATCH THE WIND (Hickory). At 19, Donovan (born Donovan Leitch) is already known as the British Dylan for his original composition, his crude, nasal voice and whining harmonica. Unlike Dylan, he is more blue than bitter, ignores contemporary complaints to mine the more traditional folk lode-unrequited love, loneliness and rootless ramblings...
...Mother Lode. Geologist McNair made his discovery last summer after sighting a distinctive rock ledge on remote Victoria Island in the Canadian arctic. Clearly visible on the surface of the Pre-Cambrian rock, which had somehow escaped the disturbances of mountain building and the pressures of overlying rock, were the fossilized tracks of burrowing, wormlike animals -an encouraging indication that more fossils might be near by. Says McNair: "I knew how gold prospectors felt when they stumbled across the mother lode." Splitting open the rock, he found the remains of 47 primitive, clamlike brachi-opods that radioisotope dating proved...
...knew how gold prospectors felt when they stumbled across the mother lode," McNair said of the find...