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...dated May and November 1969, of the sandbar opening through which ocean tides swept northward into Katama Bay, through the channel between Edgartown and Chappaquiddick and out into the sound. According to the pictures, the opening into Katama Bay was still clear in May but had been blocked by sand by November. The Star indicated that the opening had gradually silted up during the intervening months. The newspaper concluded that by July 18 the gap would have been too narrow and shallow to let in a northward current of any strength. That interpretation concurs with what Ralph Martin, racing secretary...
Kennedy accused the Star of "irresponsible, shoddy and incomplete" reporting. His aides produced aerial photos showing the sand bar still open to the south on July 2-and indeed, on Oct. 24, 1969. The Star did not have the July 2 picture, which was obtained by the Kennedy staff two weeks ago from J. Gordon Ogden, a longtime summer resident of Martha's Vineyard who has compiled a book on the area's tides. But the Star did have the Oct. 24 photo. The newspaper's editors decided not to publish it because it was taken from...
...Santa Fe, N. Mex., government buildings, businesses and houses are trimmed with farolitos, votive candles burning on a bed of sand in small paper bags, that offer a warming gleam against the dark. Olympia, Wash., launched a gaudy annual contraption called Christmas Island, assembled from Army pontoon bridges and anchored offshore with a forest of lights and a life-size Nativity scene. Denver's stately City and County Building is a blinking, electrified gingerbread house as multicolored as a jukebox. Not to be outdone, Austin sports a 165-ft.-tall, man-made metal tree shining out over a Santa...
...British art critic and historian Ian Dunlop, Degas (Harper & Row; 240 pages; $37.50) is by far the best introduction to the life and work of the painter of boulevards and ballet dancers now in print. A student of Ingres's and the great contemporary of Manet, Flaubert Sand the Goncourt brothers, Degas was one of those ocular witnesses without whom the cultural life of France in the 19th century cannot be understood; and no writer has done a better job of placing this tetchy, formidable genius, with his astonishing powers of observation iand his bitter tongue ("Whistler, you behave...
Snow seared the eyes, swelling them, making it an effort just to see. The boredom and the weight of every step exhausted him. For a moment, Justin thought he saw the sun. Then he saw sand...