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For a long time now in California, the land of Forest Lawn and Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One, the law has allowed relatives to do only two things with the ashes of their cremated dead. They may be left in a cemetery or they may be scattered to...
After a rain the whole track looks like a big mud flat, but there is a difference. The track cushion, the running surface that the horses' hooves actually hit-below the loose dirt scattered on top, is hard near the rail and soft and mushy for the rest of the...
Unfortunately, the advent of a new weapons system complicates the outlook for a broader agreement. Even as the negotiators talked in Vienna, the U.S. was installing Minuteman III and Poseidon missiles that carry formidable MIRVs (multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles). Composed of a cluster of three or more nuclear...
Painted Over. Desegregation for many black students simply means schools run by hostile whites instead of sympathetic blacks. One result: a crushing loss of status for middle-class black educators, who have provided the black South with a sense of pride and leadership. A final "tragic consequence of desegregation," in...
Painful Accuracy. Nilsson himself speaks of a "certain indefinable something" that he and Newman have in common. But it is really where they differ that tells the most. One of the many ironies about Newman is that, although he sings in a raspy, soul-based blues style, his chief concern...