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Hence, in part, the extraordinary interest of a show by New York Photographer Mary Ellen Mark, now on view at the Castelli Uptown gallery in Manhattan. Under the title "Ward 81," it records what Mark saw and experienced in the spring of 1976 during a six-week sojourn in the women's section of the maximum security ward of the Oregon State Hospital. "I wanted," says Mark, "to do an essay on the personalities of people who are locked away-to show a little bit of what they're like, especially the women. I didn't want...
Mark got permission from the patients and staff to live in an unused part of Ward 81. "If you're someone who photographs people, you're always an intruder," she says. "It took a while to get a rapport-the stronger photos didn't come till we got to know the women, and they got involved in the project. They felt they were making some kind of contact with the outside world...
...diagnostician was authoritative: Alton G. Marshall, president of Rockefeller Center Inc. The patient was his ward: Manhattan's grand old Radio City Music Hall, which, said Marshall last week, will close for good in April...
...From this picture, they hope to obtain a more definitive view of the strange events around Palmdale. That knowledge, in turn, could eventually enable them to predict if-and possibly when and where -an earthquake will strike. "'Uplifts have been observed before several major earthquakes," notes Seismologist Peter Ward, chief of earthquake mechanics and predictions for the U.S.G.S. Among these quakes is California's last large temblor, the one that shook the San Fernando Valley in 1971, taking 58 lives...
...nominated Businessman G. William Miller as Federal Reserve chairman and promoted James Mclntyre Jr. to Director of the Office of Management and Budget (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS). But Carter spent most of his time getting ready for his trip. Like any other tourist headed for Asia, he took pills to ward off malaria and was inoculated against cholera and typhoid. He pored over thick briefing books. He packed a copy of the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu holy book...