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...most pressing and immediate problems, water and sewage. The nearest water main is several miles away, on the other side of the airport, and the city does not seem willing to lay water lines or sewage pipes for an impoverished community of this size. Although Houston Mayor Louis Welsh did donate new water barrels to Bordersville a few years ago, they have already rusted...
...foreign periodicals try Reading International (47 Brattle St.), but foreign language scholars should avoid this popularized medley and opt for Schoenhof's (1280 Mass Ave.) instead. It specializes in everything from books in Amharic to those in Welsh. And if they don't have what you want they will get it for you. Browsers can, be they greenhorn or fanatic, make a lifetime of it. At Grolier's (6 Plympton St.) you never know what rare antique find you may happen upon. It is the same story at the Starr Book Shop (29 Plympton St.), and the Mandrake Bookstore...
...this point in her career, Dylana Jenson is the happy product of what may be described as benevolent parental interference or, as her father Lee (a freelance writer in Van Nuys, Calif.) calls it, "maverick management." When Dylana (named after the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas) was eight and learning the Mendelssohn concerto, her teacher ruled that she was not ready to master the ricochet technique (bouncing the bow on the strings) required in the work. Her parents decided otherwise. "Dylana knew from listening to records of the concerto what was right and wrong," says her mother Ana, a former schoolteacher...
...phenomenon spans Europe from Britain, still grappling with Welsh and Scottish nationalism and the bloody war in Ulster, to the Soviet Union, troubled by ethnic unrest in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Yugoslavia, where uneasy equilibrium has been upset by a violent upsurge of Croatian nationalism, may be the only European nation whose existence as a single, unified state seems directly imperiled. But others have been rattled, to a greater or lesser degree, by a variety of unhappy minorities: Switzerland's Jura separatists, Sweden's Lapps, Rumania's Transylvanian Hungarians, France's Bretons and Corsicans, Spain...
TUESDAY: Divorce His/Divorce Hers. Two-part TV-movie examines the collapse of a marriage, first from the husband's side and then from the wife's. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor are the couple in this Welsh TV production. CH. 5, 8:30 p.m. Color, 90 min. Part I on Tues. Part II on Wednes...