Word: metropolitanism
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...though Columbus is Ohio's second largest city?behind Cleveland, ahead of Cincinnati?with a metropolitan population of about 1.1 million, and shows signs of considerable prosperity, it does not have a major symphony orchestra, a notable theater, a ballet troupe, or a big-league art museum. It also does not possess a single tablecloth restaurant of even one-star distinction. If you want a good French dinner, they say, try Maisonette or Pigall's in Cincinnati, a two-hour drive. For topnotch Chinese food, head for Pan-Asia in Cleveland, northeast on the interstate. Some swear that a first...
...following day, Joseph Ternbach, an art restorer who has worked with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, examined the shattered fragments and announced that he could mend Ubatuba in two months. New York Senator Daniel Moynihan, one of the sculpture's more vocal admirers, then called a fund-raising meeting, where the Art Dealers Association of America volunteered to underwrite the $2,000 needed for restoration. Poncet, who worked on Ubatuba over a five-year period, was less optimistic that all the Senator's men could ever put Ubatuba back together again. "Everything would be destroyed in terms...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission provided disturbing new details on the initial performance of Metropolitan Edison Co., the plant's beleaguered operator. Midway through the first critical day, the hot, uranium-filled core, normally bathed in pressurized cooling water, was left dangerously uncovered for as long as 50 minutes; controllers had shut off the emergency core cooling system, probably because of ambiguous or misleading instrument readings. It was during this period that much of the damage was done to the fuel rods, causing a release of radiation...
Three of the plants-in Arkansas, Florida and Ohio-are already shut down for routine maintenance or refueling. So too are Metropolitan Edison's two reactors at Three Mile Island: one because of the March 28 accident, its twin for refueling and maintenance. Thus the NRC's order means an additional loss of only four nuclear plants-California's Rancho Seco and Duke Power's three Oconee reactors in South Carolina-out of 72 nuclear plants licensed to operate across the U.S., including five on the East Coast temporarily shut for earthquake safety studies. All together...
DIED. Leopold Ludwig, 71, celebrated Generalmusikdirektor of the Hamburg Opera (1951-70), popular guest conductor of the Metropolitan and San Francisco operas, and versatile interpreter of contemporary opera as well as of Wagner, Strauss and Mahler; of a heart attack; in Luneburg, West Germany...