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...just end this by saying that I'd like nothing better than to know that the president of Harvard is sleeping just as souundly at Elmwood as is the mayor of Cambridge across town on Porter...
...infant education are fueled by eager parents who will try anything to give their children a head start. Similar experiments are arousing interest in those who work among the poor. Dr. Joseph Sparling, for example, has developed and published a series of 100 educational games at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. These games, which range from specific subjects like language development to vague concerns like self-image, have been tried out with some success over the past five years in a federally funded program called Project Care. Researchers...
...prosperous, happy-go-lucky speakeasy nation constantly seeking diversions, Zelig--like Lindbergh or the Lindbergh trial--helped satiate their leach-like needs. He toured on freak shows. He spurred a dance craze: the Chameleon rivalled the Charleston in popularity. He triggered a host of songs (Cole Porter once wrote "You're the tops, you're Leonard Zelig--except he couldn't find anything to rhyme with Zelig). Zelig paraphenalia--ashtrays, jewelry, and general knick-knacks--cropped up and sold briskly...
...recreated Sept. 19 at Versailles. Meanwhile the Grand Palais is holding an aviation exhibition, with machines on loan from Washington and Moscow, through August. Hot-air flight is also the specialty of the 18th century Château Cezy, located 90 miles southwest of Paris. Its owner, Englishman Donald Porter, offers fearless vacationers ballooning in Burgundy, a four-day, three-night aerial adventure. Meals and wines are lavish, with matching prices: $1,700 a person for three nights. Guests who prefer water to air can join the château's six-person "gourmet barge," which costs...
Many of the microbreweries are outgrowths of home brewing and retain their amateur trappings. Real Ale produces its ale, porter and stout in a used 30-gal. soup kettle on the second floor of a former stove factory. The premises are shared by five workers and a seven-month-old, beer-guzzling Airedale named Porter. Thousand Oaks Brewing (1982 sales: $23,460) operates from the basement of the Berkeley, Calif, home of Charles and Diana Rixford. In Boulder, Colo., David Hummer, a University of Colorado astrogeophysicist, co-founded Boulder Brewing (1982 sales: $96,000) with two partners in what used...