Description
Contents: Smithsonian Horizon, Letters to the Editor, Around the Mall and Beyond, Phenomena, Comment and Notes, Picture Credits, Ten Thousand Square Yards in Manhattan (New York’s garment district – small, crowded, insular and rich – clothes 90 million American women.(, Making The Familiar Strange (Visual-thinking courses are teaching engineering students something intangible: imagination.), The Lincoln Highway, First Across the Country (In its earliest days it seemed little better than a long detour, but Americans took to it anyway.), History From a Grandstand Seat (Before the movies, before TV, the old cycloramas turned great battles into theater-in-the-round.), Science Gets Its Hands on Poison Ivy (But for the rest of us, its hands off – until a way is found to immunize the susceptible.), Servicing Satellites in Space (As the skies fill up, new technologies will permit on the spot maintenance out there.), Bob Leathers’ Stunning Photographs (They are designed with the children’s help, then built by their parents and the whole community.), Is the Toothy Tasmanian Tiger Still Around? (Nobody has probably seen the carnivorous marsupial for a long time, but elaborate searches go on.)
Issue: August 1985
Condition: Very Good