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Indeed, the imperial splendor of presidential travel sometimes stuns even Presidents-including Ronald Reagan. Before his summer vacation last year, Reagan demanded that his aides explain why nearly 200 Government employees had to be flown to California to stand by while he rode horses and chopped wood at his ranch. No way to pare the list, the aides replied: wherever he goes, the President must be in instant communication with any part of the world, guarded round the clock and accompanied by an ever growing press corps...
Another familiar company now in trouble is the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., once the largest supermarket chain in the U.S. It is shutting the doors on outlets at the rate of ten a month, and Chairman James Wood, 52, has promised another 400 closings, which will bring the size of the chain down to 1,200. A&P once had 3,600 stores in the U.S. The company has suffered nine successive quarters of losses...
...larch, 39½ ft. high. At first it looks like a dead inverted tree, standing on a pedestal, its branches lopped to stubs. Then one becomes aware that the whole form of the tree has been patiently excavated, by carving, from the sawed block. Working backward into the wood from knots, Penone has raised the buried ghost of the tree as it looked when it was younger. This may sound a simple conceit, but it is not: the finished sculpture, almost "nature" but not quite, also relates in a subtle way to the organic spiral form of Frank Lloyd Wright...
...without a country, Lind became a displaced artist as well, without a sure tradition or even a language. He wrote at first in German; now he uses English. He lives in London, in New York, in Majorca. He has variously conducted his literary experiments in short stories (Soul of Wood), novels (Landscape in Concrete), autobiography (Counting My Steps) and even scores of radio plays. Yet few contemporary writers have been so singleminded. During all his wanderings he has clung obsessively to the original question from that day when Vienna became "one big swastika." How does a witness register the madness...
...18th century and moved to America in the 19th. In this day of home computers and space travel, the Amish eschew zippers as decadent, electricity as unnecessary and flush toilets as wasteful. They forgo the automobile in favor of sleek trotters and canvas-topped carriages of hickory wood. They use fine, sturdy workhorses to spread manure and plow their fields, which is what they are doing these days as spring spreads over their green country...