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...downtown Columbus area, and he believes that even that project, with none of Ivy Wood's difficulties, was a mistake. "The way things are, these projects have to be built in areas where they are the least likely to offend, in a poor urban setting or in out-of-the-way places. That only tends to increase the problems that low-income people face...
...like to keep our Man of the Year selection secret, so Reporter-Researcher Anne Constable moved to an out-of-the-way, unmarked office where she pored over Kissinger's books and foreign-policy statements. White House Correspondent Jerrold Schecter, who accompanied Nixon and Kissinger to Moscow and Peking earlier in the year and who has lately been following his subjects from Paris to Key Biscayne, Fla., provided his firsthand observations of the special working relationship that exists between the two men. Associate Editor Lance Morrow wrote the cover, his second Man of the Year effort (he also wrote...
...compared with the regular tourist-class minimum fare of $282, a student aged 16 to 24 can buy one-way passage to or from a dozen European ports. The line's four floating palazzi stop at some out-of-the-way places, including Tenerife, Palermo, Palma de Majorca and Algeciras, as well as at Lisbon, Cannes, Naples and Genoa. Student-fare travelers will enjoy the same accommodations (two, three or four to a cabin) as regular tourist-class passengers. They will also have the same amenities: swimming pool, 2 a.m. pizza parties and three other meals a day, with...
Talese's individualism gained him a reputation as a prima donna at the New York Times, where he began as a copyboy in 1953 and left as a hot-shot feature writer twelve years later. His specialty was the out-of-the-way, the offbeat, the loser, the star that has fallen or faded. Bill Bonanno was a natural for Talese. But how does a journalist get close to the Mafia? Very slowly and very carefully. Research on the book took nearly seven years from the time in 1965 when Talese first introduced himself to Bonanno in a courtroom...
...world's richest market, the U.S. underpins the prosperity of many out-of-the-way places, including the little Belgian villages of Froyennes and Callenelle. Their sole industry is making cast-resin billiard balls, the high-quality type used in tournament play, in the better pool halls and by the more discriminating owners of home tables. The painstaking job requires baking a resin mixture in molds in ovens of varying heat for periods of from seven days for a white cueball to 15 days for a striped ball (Nos. 9 to 15). The two firms of Usines de Callenelle...