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Alex Haley, against stupendous odds, pursued his Roots two centuries back to darkest Gambia. For 130 million Americans glued to the eight-part Haley-Kinte TV chronicle in January, it was a transit through time and tears more gripping than Upstairs, Downstairs or any Stanley Kubrick fantasy. Says Michael Tepper, editor of Genealogical Publishing Co. in Baltimore: "Roots has shown that what seemed remote and mysterious is in fact knowable and within our grasp. It has awakened a smoldering awareness of facts we only thought were unknowable...
...raises as many problems as, say, refinishing or mending them, he added. Special cases are designed to protect against bumps and the atmosphere. Yet the preventives, like their medical counterparts, often have unexpected side effects. Black rubber, which is often used to cushion picture frames from handling shocks in transit, tarnishes the metal. An experiment with a copper dish and this "dark enemy" goes on under a glass cover in a corner. And the lauded modern plastic adhesives, though stabler than old synthetics, tend to deteriorate in Ultra-Violet light. Bronze or some other chemically sensitive material is often transported...
...visits by the Queen to nearly every corner of the British Isles. The British Tourist Authority has issued a 32-page booklet listing scores of 25th-anniversary events before and after the national thanksgiving service at St. Paul's Cathedral on June 7. Even London's transit authority is getting into the spirit: a fleet of 25 silver-painted double-decker buses will tool around the city...
Most Secretaries of Transportation hail from states with urban rapid transit systems. Not Brock Adams, whose state of Washington has no doubt seen more people rolling logs down the Spokane River than cramming into a rush-hour subway. Nevertheless, Adams is reputed to know his stuff when it comes to transportation. Maybe that's why Carter chose...
...Many of these workers testified that they did not accept the graveyard shift jobs because they lived alone in Watertown and Someville, did not drive and would have to have used mass transit, and were afraid of coming in and out of Harvard Square in the middle of the night," Kuntz said...