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...second annual Christmas scenario for exhibiting the American hostages was cruelly strung out by Tehran's outrageous propagandists. After keeping the 52 hostages hidden from world view for eight months, Iran's squabbling authorities announced early in the week that not even a holiday visit by non-Iranian Christian clergymen would be permitted this year, a move that fed fears in the U.S. that some of the Americans were not well-or not even alive. For the first time the State Department said it had information that some of the hostages were not getting "adequate medical attention...
When the esteemed U.S. Secretary of State from Massachusetts uttered those words in 1852, he was only echoing the haughty contempt that many Easterners felt toward what map makers then labeled the Great American Desert. Even today, the eight states strung out along the Rocky Mountains are collectively the nation's most thinly settled (12 inhabitants per square mile, vs. 62 overall in the U.S.) and the most arid (12 in. rainfall, vs. 29 nationwide). Yet in addition to their wild beauty, these Mountain States contain such a magnificent array of national treasures that they are now being developed...
...subject and wants everybody to know everything he has found out about it. There are enough subsidiary characters with strong, if not subtly shaded personalities to stock a couple of movies, and enough extraneous melodrama to plot a Competition II. Granted, a piano contest in which six high-strung finalists must each play a concerto within a single 24-hour period is likely to be an emotionally taxing occasion, but enough is enough...
Marty Seigmeister, Dining hall manager, said a gymnasium, site of a planned Thanksgiving feast, will be "rather charming" with some decorations. "Perhaps a couple of papier-mache turkeys will be strung from the ceiling," he added...
LOON LAKE shimmers in the dewy dawn, prose and poetry, beautiful words strung like a creeping vine in a jungle of Adirondack fir. But E. L. Doctorow's images evaporate in the sunlight. He tightly wraps the vine around his totem of America then chops at this wooden monument like a pecking bird. He hunts for seedy answers to those pregnant questions only poets ask. He wants to know who we are, where we have come from, what we look like to ourselves. He whirls in a magical helix around America's spine and in the end he finds that...