Word: towns
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...destinies of the two states sometimes worked in counterpoint, almost seemed to leapfrog each other. In the 1970s, for example, Massachusetts appeared to be threadbare and obsolete, a ghost town of the Industrial Revolution, its people shivering through the winters of the oil shortage. Texas boomed with energy--the kind it pumped out of the Permian Basin and the kind that came from its adrenal glands. Now it is Texas that is chastened and Massachusetts that seems, for the moment, to belong to the future. Two reports...
...charms of Texas is its inherent exaggeration of almost everything. Its weather runs to violent extremes. It is a rough joke to survive a drought of several years and then find the drought broken by torrential rains that can flood the town and wash away the pickup truck. Texas humor, like the Texas landscape, accommodates outrageous possibilities...
Animosity toward blacks and a history of racial violence long ago earned Cicero, Ill. (pop. 62,000), a reputation as the "Selma of the North." In 1983 the Justice Department sued the Chicago suburb for housing and job discrimination, and last week Cicero's town board finally agreed to change its ways. Bowing to a consent decree, the town will adopt a fair-housing resolution and eliminate its rule against hiring only residents for municipal jobs. Few observers were impressed. Said the N.A.A.C.P.'s Mel Ford Jordan: "It is an action consistent with 1860, which for Cicero is progressive." Town...
...best place to start sightseeing is at Canada's own pavilion, which is across town, half a mile or so from the rest of Expo. Set on a giant pier, it is topped by five soaring fiber-glass sails and looks a little like an 18th century man-of-war striding into the wind. Get into line--the first, alas, of many at Expo--for two informative and blissfully short movies about the host ; country. Next comes a never failing crowd pleaser, a 3-D extravaganza that among other things, sends a train roaring out into the audience. Then something...
After a neck-wrenching look at Hystar, a visitor might do well to take the SkyTrain, a monorail actually, to the main part of Expo back across town on a 173-acre site along a harbor inlet. Most people probably will feel duty bound to see the pavilions of the Big Three, the U.S., the Soviet Union and China. The bad news is they are far apart from one another, and the lines in front are among the longest; the worse news is that they all seem to have signed a big-power pact to be boring...