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...Bluegrass State might be mistaken for the moon. Both boon and bane, strip mining gouges out a third of Ken tucky's coal production, which last year reached 93 million tons worth some $500 million. The strip miners use bull dozers to flay great strips off the sur face and get at the veins beneath. This scars Appalachia's hills and flatlands with ugly detritus called overburden or spoil. As the spoil shifts and slides, the hills resound to the awful rumble of landslides shuddering down the slopes...
...Cheviot Beach" -a lonely, rocky stretch 21 miles from Holt's beach home, and one of the most dangerous beaches in the Portsea area. When the five arrived, the tide was at crest, and ugly chunks of wood and flotsam bobbed about on the sur face. "I had never seen it like that before," Mrs. Gillespie says. But Holt decided to go in anyway. "I know this beach like the back of my hand," he insisted. After all, he had been swimming there since 1926, when as an unmarried law student he began visiting Cheviot with Zara...
...switch caught everyone by sur prise. Makarios had raised no insurmountable objections to the agreement during his two meetings with Vance earlier in the week. Vance was so confident that matters had been settled that he had been preparing in Athens for his return flight to the U.S. When he got word of the snag, he immediately jetted back to Nicosia for a four-hour meeting with Makarios, then went off to the U.S. embassy for a few hours of sleep while Makarios huddled with his Cabinet nearly all night. The next morning the two men met again...
...most entertaining discoveries in Kraus's The Living Theatre of Medieval Art (Indiana University Press; $15) concerns the tympanum of the abbey church at Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne, probably the earliest (circa A.D. 1130) monumental portrayal of the Judgment Day. Until Kraus came along, scholars had assumed that seven little men at Christ's feet represented souls of the blessed and the damned rising from their graves. Kraus, however, noted that they were clothed instead of naked, contrary to customary portrayals of souls, and that all were men (normally, some would be women). While four were either praying...
...isolation was brutal. Stalin sur rounded his "little housekeeper" with NKVD agents and made her a prisoner shifted between Kremlin and countryside. The description of her first love affair at 17 becomes an episode in the life of a girl who for the first time since her mother's death feels the pull of approval by another human being. The man was a 40-year-old film director, Alexei Kapler. When Stalin had the whole story-telephone transcriptions, letters, trysts-he ordered Kapler arrested as a British spy, had him sentenced to ten years of exile and prison...