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Reading provided a major outlet for Speer's mental energy. "Spandau was truly my education," he muses. Allowed to borrow from Berlin's libraries, Speer sometimes devoured as many as 50 books a month. He also became an enthusiastic gardener. "It became my salvation," he confessed last week. Terracing, weeding and pruning, he worked at the plot in the prison yard four or five hours daily. "I became something of a landscape architect, you might say," he says-a joking reference to the architectural skills that originally brought him to the attention of Hitler...
Matadi is Zaire's outlet to the ocean, paved and built up by the Belgians before they left in the violent early 1960's. There haven't been any new buildings for a long time, and marks of civilization, like the concrete slabs covering the sewer ditches, are falling apart. Like center cities everywhere, Matadi is giving way to the suburbs: the villages which crowd the circle of hills around the city now use shale-and-cement and concrete blocks for building materials instead of woven cane and occasional tin-and-plywood...
...this week, Baryshnikov at 27 ranks with these dancers. It is less than a year since he broke away from a Soviet touring company in Toronto, but the public has already made him a superstar and calls him by his nickname. To discourage long lines last winter, a ticket outlet in Manhattan put up a sign saying "Misha tickets all sold...
...these locations, the basic formula of fast-food chains-flamboyant stores plus a heavy volume of take-out orders and quick turnover of customers-often is also the formula for trouble. Streets for blocks around become littered with emblemed boxes, cups and bags; double-parking near the outlet causes traffic jams; transients drawn by inexpensive food disturb-and sometimes menace-local residents. Indeed, some Manhattan community groups charge that the fast-food joints attract not only raucous youths and loiterers but also pimps, prostitutes and drug addicts...
...Gold Coast cagers was Ted Killory who kept the fast break alive leaning the glass from rebounds and firing outlet passes to guards Gil Kerr and Healey...