Word: metropolitanism
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...cities, who are upset with Jimmy Carter for not paying more attention to the problems of urban America. They voiced their complaints in interviews with TIME on the eve of two get-togethers in San Francisco: the first, which ended last weekend, rallied more than 100 top officials from metropolitan areas; the second, which continued this week, was the annual meeting of the National League of Cities, attended by 4,300 municipal officials...
With its 100 full-color plates, Tutankhamun: His Tomb and Its Treasures by I.E.S. Edwards, with photographs by Harry Burton and Lee Boltin (Metropolitan Museum of Art/Knopf; 256 pages; $35), is the finest popular book on the subject. It depicts objects that were not included in the Metropolitan Museum-Egyptian government exhibition now touring several U.S. cities, as well as black-and-white photos from the 1922-28 excavation under Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon. These old pictures reflect the excitement of the unsealing when Tutankhamun's treasures lay in disarray, as if at some pharaonic garage sale...
...Paul Schoeffler, 70, German opera bass-baritone famous for his interpretation of Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger; after a long illness; in Amersham, England. Schoeffler sang in Vienna during and after World War II and regularly made the operatic grand tour during the 1950s. At New York's Metropolitan Opera he was popular as Scarpia in Tosca and as Don Giovanni. Despite his success, he complained that "this business of dressing up in a silly costume, putting on a wig and paint on the face and getting killed or poisoned or drunk every night" made for a less than...
...related development, Leonard Kopelman '62, attorney for Metropolitan Greetings, Inc.--the comany that owns the property where all three companies have operated--said Starr will be forced to quite the premises within two weeks...
About 4000 cavities form daily in the mouths of children and teenagers in the metropolitan Boston area. Most dental and public health experts believe that more than half of these cavities can be prevented cheaply and easily by fluoridating the water supply. On Jan. 1, 1978, after ten years of state planning and construction, the Metropolitan District Commission (MDC) will begin fluoridating the water supplied to Boston and 33 surrounding communities...