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...room bungalow (purchase price: $19,000), but Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and his wife Ethel say they can learn to call their new digs home. The Bradleys moved last week into a gabled $600,000 Norman-style, 14-room mansion, complete with herringbone-brick patio and a reflecting pool. The house, built in 1921 in the city's Wilshire district, was once inhabited by Actor John Barrymore. The Getty Oil Co. took it over in 1967 and later donated it to the city, making Los Angeles the third major U.S. city (after New York and Detroit) with...
Like other major utilities in the U.S. and Canada, New York's embattled Consolidated Edison Co. (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS) not only has its own electrical generating plants but is plugged into a larger regional pool of power producers. Depending on the electricity needs of its 9 million customers in New York City and neighboring Westchester County, Con Ed can either 1) rely largely on its own generators, or 2) buy power from neighboring utilities if the load-or demand from its users-is high, or 3) sell off surplus electricity to other companies. Yet those choices are complicated...
Nowhere have I seen so many mirages as I saw in Eritrea. To reach out one's hand for what is clearly a shimmering pool of water nestled among rocks, to see reflections in the water, and then to touch sand and feel insects biting: this happened several times, as if one could never learn the lesson. It got to the point where to save precious water, I dry-washed my hands with dirt, only later to find my fingers and palms itching from infinitesimal slivers of thorns hidden in the dirt...
Prehistoric Skeletons. Lloyd Hezekiah, director of the renowned Brooklyn Children's Museum, which began in 1899 and this past May moved out of temporary quarters in a renovated pool hall and into a free-form $4 million building, calls children's museums "theaters for learning." Showmanship and pedagogy are blended together to create exhibits designed to captivate children on their own level. Instead of being locked away in glass cases, objects ranging from prehistoric skeletons to 19th century dolls are meant to be touched, tapped or even taken apart to discover what lies within. A model...
...with similar but smaller tokens of support, while such ideological allies of the Palestinians as the Soviet Union and China contribute arms and other materiel. In fact, despite the much publicized poverty and squalor of the refugee camps that provide the fedayeen with a power base and a manpower pool, the Palestinians have what is probably the richest, best-financed revolutionary terrorist organization in history...