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...last stop before the city of St. Andrews in the kingdom of Fife is the east coast and Muirfield, the most elegant estate on the Firth of Forth. No trees, no burns (creeks), 165 sand traps. It is raining sideways, and one of the caddies is a matron named Heather, who replies in confusion to every profane mention of the stuff. Keep a grip on the club, get a grip on yourself. The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers goes back to 1744 and leather golf balls filled with boiled feathers. But the club still hasn't got around to building...
...drought has reduced parts of the mighty Mississippi to a slow, shallow stream, stalling barge traffic amid rocks and sandbars. But as the water recedes, the river bottom emerges, providing clues to a lost past. On an ugly beach of sand and clay in Arkansas, just downstream from Memphis, archaeologists have struck what they consider gold: large chunks of riverboats built in the late 1800s and long buried in silt...
Nowhere has the shifting frontier of the civil rights struggle been more apparent than in Yonkers, a racially divided blue-collar suburb of New York City. Last week Leonard Sand, a soft-spoken, patient federal judge, got fed up with that city's refusal over three years to carry out his orders to place public housing in its white neighborhoods. Gazing down sternly from his bench in Manhattan at four Yonkers councilmen, the jurist delivered a tongue- lashing. "What we're clearly confronted with is a total breakdown of any sense of responsibility," he charged. "What we have here...
With that, Judge Sand declared Yonkers in contempt of court for refusing to obey his order to help private developers build 800 units of moderate-income housing. The judge began levying fines that doubled daily against the city and would leave it bankrupt later this month. Yonkers promptly lost its already poor bond rating, rendering it unable to borrow. Fines of $500 a day were imposed on the recalcitrant councilmen...
...While Sand gave the four holdouts until Aug. 10 to reverse their negative votes or face jail terms, Yonkers appealed the contempt finding to higher courts. Invited by the judge to remove the rebellious officials, New York Governor Mario Cuomo instead deferred to the state's Emergency Financial Control Board, an agency that oversees Yonkers' shaky finances. Cuomo further muddied the waters by observing that Yonkers officials might be able to persuade Judge Sand to modify his ruling. Grandstanding politicians in the Yonkers stalemate could find a guiding example of courageous leadership in Boston. Neighborhood resistance to the integration...