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ITHACA, N.Y.--Remember that guy who used to lead cartoon characters and their viewers in rousing choruses of "Oh, Susannah" or "I've Been Working On the Railroad" with the immortal words, "Follow the bouncing ball"? Well, those old cartoons are long tucked away in the annals of after-school TV, but the song leader has found himself a new job--as the football color commentator at Radio Cornell, where the ball never stops bouncing...
...attendants in orange-and-green plaid suits dispensed drinks from airline-style carts in the aisles, one railroad buff marveled: "Look, not even a ripple on my Beaujolais...
...Deferring, until Oct. 1, 1982, cost-of-living increases that under present law would be due three to seven months earlier in eight major classes of federal benefits: Social Security and veterans' benefits; military, civil service and railroad retirement pensions; supplemental security income for the blind and disabled; food stamps and other federally funded nutrition programs; payments to miners suffering from black-lung disease. The Government might save $4 billion to $5 billion next fiscal year, at the price of slicing into some programs that Reagan had earlier defined as part of an untouchable "social safety net." True enough...
...wasn't until he reached sixth grade, really, that Walter Sullivan got involved in politics. The year was 1935, and his father--Michael A. "Mickey the Dude" Sullivan--was making his first bid for the Cambridge city council. Walter, of course, was distributing palm cards, watching the railroad flare-processions, and helping out at the picnics. The lessons were not lost...
...years after the Civil War, photographers went with the surveying parties and railroad gangs as they painfully worked their way across the continent. Lugging their clumsy box cameras and big fragile glass plates up mountains and down canyons, they brought back what painters could not give, or not so persuasively: the "facts," the scientific truth that intersected with the myth of God's design. It was photography, even more than painting, that shaped America's sense of its own size, topographical splendor and geological antiquity in the 19th century...