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From Interstate 81 to Route 13, via scenic Cortland, a 50--mile journey to Ithaca offers an edifying display of fall foliage. Ofcourse on this trip, the leaves were obscured by predictably dark night sky. So after leaving the city whose airport proclaims it "New York's progressive metropolitan area." We were left to top-40 am tunes on CKLW (Toronto) and Sparky Anderson's World series color commentary on WHAS...
...Traveling Runner's Guide (Dutton; $5.95) is a rather straightforward listing of safe, scenic places to run in 21 cities around the country and may, for the dedicated, be worth carrying along on a business trip. The Runner's Guide to the U.S.A. (Summit; $12.95 hardcover, $6.95 paper) offers information on some 200 distance races, from four miles on up, with evaluations of the courses, the facilities available and the prizes awarded finishers. Target 26 (Collier; $4.95) provides some practical advice for anyone interested in marathons. The book is written in the same style...
...ride away, just beyond Fresh Pond, is Mt. Auburn Cemetery. You may find it somewhat surprising that a cemetery is one of the more popular picnic areas in town. The older section, with elaborate sculpted stones boasting names like Lowell and Winthrop, is the more scenic. On the highest part of the cemetery rests a romantic turreted stone tower from which you can get an amazing view of the Boston skyline. Manicured paths line the cemetery itself, and they can be wonderful places to wander when you want to be alone and outdoors...
There was no panic at the plant, situated on a stretch of muddy soil called Three Mile Island in an otherwise scenic bend in the river. The men in the control room had heard those sirens before. They went about their task of meeting what looked at first like just another "transient," a minor glitch somewhere in the complex system like so many they had dealt with in the past. Unit 2's huge turbine, which generates 880 megawatts of electricity, had "tripped," shut down automatically, as it should when the steam that turns it has somehow been...
...fighting, in the wooded hills and tilled valleys of a scenic region called the Viet Bac, was shrouded behind military secrecy on both sides and by a cloud cover that thwarted satellite observation. Hanoi issued regular self-serving communiques; Peking's announcements were so cryptic as to be meaningless. Said one Hong Kong observer: "It's like hearing a couple of cats squawling in the middle of the night ?they're making a helluva racket, but you don't know if they are fighting or making love." From the start of hostilities, however, it was all too obvious that...