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From: ladasky@netcom.com (John J. Ladasky II)
Subject: Re: Buying up old polluting cars
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 17:35:27 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)

karplus@ce.ucsc.edu (Kevin Karplus) writes:
>There has been a lot of discussion on this newsgroup about the
>advantages of buying up old cars as a pollution reduction measure.
>While getting highly polluting cars off the road would be a big help,
>there is some difficulty in estimating how much pollution is reduced,
>as many of the cars being junked were not being driven much anyway.
>
>How do we keep the corporations honest about how much the junked cars
>were driven each year?  They have considerable incentive to estimate
>each car as being driven extensively.

	Hmmm...  it's not just a question of a car being "driven" extensive-
ly.  A junker idling at the intersection of El Camino and San Tomas is not
driving, per se, but it is polluting.  I think that a small study by the
state could establish an average pollution value for junker cars.  This takes
the pollution estimate decision out of the hands of those who would have a
conflict of interest.

	I suppose that an interested private organization could also perform
the study.  However, I think that a small research outfit might be even more
susceptible to pressure from industry than our state government. (Can you 
believe it? ;^)

>
>Furthermore, what about the polluting trucks?  The air-quality program
>in California has been very quiet about fine particulates (the main source
>of which are diesel exhaust), despite the high correlation with deaths
>from respiratory failure.  Are we going to start junking some of those
>trucks too?

	Diesel trucks are a pretty substantial investment, aren't they?
What do trucking companies pay for them?  And don't they spend quite a bit
of money maintaining these vehicles as well?

	Here's a thought.  It doesn't make sense to perform surgery on your
'76 Dart and upgrade it to some sort of alternative-fuel system, since the
whole vehicle is basically over the hill.  However, I am under the impression
that trucking fleets are maintained pretty religiously.  (Somebody out there
in net.land correct me if I'm wrong!)  Furthermore, a junked truck yields 
several times the scrap metal that a junked car does.  With a vehicle that is
basically sound, and especially one as large as a truck, a program that 
encourages an upgrade to cleaner fuels would seem to make more sense.

>Kevin Karplus

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From: jeremy@classic.asd.sgi.com (Jeremy Higdon)
Newsgroups: ba.transportation
Subject: Re: SC County Transit Cutbacks in store
Date: 31 Jul 92 20:13:40 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In article <15a98kINNfek@agate.berkeley.edu>, lazzaro@boom.CS.Berkeley.EDU (John Lazzaro) writes:
> In article <1992Jul30.234754.11767@Veritas.COM> joshua@Veritas.COM (Joshua Levy) writes:
> >
> >I'm sure these didn't help, but the real reason is the huge subsidy
> >that the bus system needs.  Every time you pay $1 to ride a bus, the
> >county pays $9.  This 900 % subsidy is the largest of any local mass
> >transit system.  
> >
> 
> How far off is this from systems like MUNI and AC transit? I know BART
> is about 50% sales tax, 50% fares (for operating cost), and they haven't
> had a fare increase in 7 years (none planned for this year either,
> according to the summer 92 BART times). 

Muni, AC Transit, and BART all get about 33% of operating costs from
fares.  Samtrans is at about 25%.  At least this was the case a few
years ago.
From: fuzzface@cats.ucsc.edu (Aaron Priven)
Newsgroups: ba.transportation
Subject: Re: Third rail without fences (Was: San Mateo County BART)
Keywords: third rail bart safety right of way
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:16:49 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz (College Eight)
NNTP-Posting-Host: am.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Jul21.170545.2669@ntmtv> adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt) writes:
>In article <14ge9lINN8a2@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, fuzzface@cats.ucsc.edu (Aaron Priven) writes:
>
>|> So, to make a long story short, what happened to underground third
>|> rail?  Is it still possible?
>
>I don't know of its use anywhere, present or past.  Do you know if it
>was ever used anywhere or was it only a political fight because some
>streetcar-hostile folks were trying to kill the system off with what
>sounds like a super-bizarre, problem-prone/unreliable, incompatible,
>non-standard (untested?), high-capital & maintenance cost requirement?

I wish I had the book here, I don't remember all of it.  This fight was
supposed to have occurred in the 1900-1910 period and had something to
do I thought with permission for the merger of the various street
railway companies into United Railroads.  (I'm really not up on this,
sorry.)  It didn't have anything to do with the removal of the
streetcar lines later on after WWII.

>I suppose it could be made to work in theory... after all, we've still
>got operating cable cars, right?

Now *there's* an idea.  Put a cable under CalTrain, say at 40-50
mph...

 =Aaron=
-- 
Aaron Priven, aaronrp@ucscb.ucsc.edu or fuzzface@cats.ucsc.edu
        "Men make history, but they do not do so under 
         conditions of their own choosing." -- Karl Marx
From: gnn@wsl.dec.com (George Neville-Neil)
Newsgroups: ba.transportation
Subject: Re: Slant-nosed BART & "California Cars"
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:54:58 GMT
Reply-To: gnn@wsl.dec.com (George Neville-Neil)
Organization: DEC Western Software Lab

In article <9207220032.AA02879@asia.fai.com>, vaughnw@asia.fai.com (Vaughn Wolffe) writes:
|> Since CalTrain type rolling stock and the California Car carry more than
|> twice as many seats as a PORKBART car the same frequency is not necessary
|> for the same passenger demand.

So you mean people should have to take a train that only shows on the 
hour since the trains carry so many more people ??  Trains should
be slaved to people and not vise versa.


|> As an infrequent user of BART I must consult a schedule everytime. As a
|> frequent user of CalTrain I do not need to consult a schedule.
|> 
|> 
Oh please !!  You have to consult a schedule for BART ?  Do you grab
the MUNI schedule as well ??

|> CalTrain cars are already cheaper and carry twice as many seats.

Bzzzt.  CalTrain commuter cars cost 1.75M and BART costs 1.6M.  CalTrain
cars carry more people but the BART cars are more complex since
they contain controls and motors in each car.  The other cars ordered
with the California car are significantly more expensive and carry
less people than the commuter cars (Business, Dining etc.)


|> The 
|> future market for California Cars is significantly larger. Besides the 
|> rest of the modern world is going to double-deckers. Your suggestion
|> would restrict CalTrain to the same capacity and amenity limitations 
|> of the 1960 BART mistake.
|> 

The California cars are not compatible with Amtrak rolling stock, who,
outside of CA, is going to order these cars ?

-- 
Better weapons lead to better and better weapons, until the earth is
a grenade with the fuse burning.	--- William S. Burroughs
					    _Cities of the Red Night_
Newsgroups: ba.transportation
From: whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
Subject: Re: Cable grips are like clutches
Reply-To: whheydt@PacBell.COM (Wilson Heydt)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 17:59:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul22.005022.7341@ntmtv> adrian@ntmtv.UUCP (Adrian Brandt) writes:
>In article <1992Jul21.142855@wsl.dec.com>, gnn@wsl.dec.com (George Neville-Neil) writes:
>|> |> Now *there's* an idea.  Put a cable under CalTrain, say at 40-50 mph...
>|> 
>|> Hehehe.  Not very practical, remember that the cable would have to move
>|> at a constant 40-50 mph.  The jolt you got when you picked up the cable
>|> would be quite painful :-) 
>
>No more painful than the "jolt" you get on SF's cable cars.  The cable
>"grip" works like a clutch in that it is used to gradually tighten its
>grip on the cable as the cable car comes up to full cable speed.   A 
>mischeiveous gripman on a stopped cable car certainly could jolt folks
>by doing the equivalent of "poping" the clutch in a car by rapidly
>yanking the cable grip lever all the way back as hard as he can...

Likeliest outcome would be a broken cable--which would shut down the
whole system.  With the cable cars, you're only trying to go to about
7 mph with a 7 ton car (plus passengers).  With a large train . . .
Perhaps 200 tons? More? A sudden grab would be trying go to 40 to 50
mph.  What kind of a cable will take the strain?

	--Hal
-- 
Hal Heydt                    |    "Boycott Time-Warner"
Analyst, Pacific*Bell        |         --J. Danforth Quayle
510-823-5447                 |    "... kill all the lawyers."
whheydt@pbhya.PacBell.COM    |         --William Shakespeare
Newsgroups: ba.transportation
From: mjvande@pbhye.PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
Subject: Re: Clinton, Gore, and the End of the Automobile Age
Reply-To: mjvande@PacBell.COM (Mike Vandeman)
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:11:44 GMT

-I don't use my car much, but if I want to use it, then dammit, get the hell
-out of my way.
-LOCKHEED

The last line says it all. What can we expect from someone who works for one
of the major military contractors?
From: lip@s1.gov (Loren I. Petrich)
Newsgroups: ba.transportation
Subject: Re: Clinton, Gore, and the End of the Automobile Age
Date: 21 Jul 92 21:23:44 GMT
Organization: LLNL

In article <D2150035.9360uz@outpost.SF-Bay.org> peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce) writes:
:The current battle over property rights isn't about the right of the
:government to condemn property by eminent domain, but rather about
:just compensation.  If the new freeway or train tracks cross my property
:the government will pay me for it.  If my use of my land is confiscated
:by a law because part of it is damp every spring (it's a wetland!),
:I'm not compensated - that's wrong.

	But the problem here is why should one have to gobble up so
much land to build one's infrastructure? Even if one is successfully
compensated, it is still a nuisance.

/Loren
Newsgroups: ba.windows.x
From: castor@athena.mit.edu (Carlos A. Rabell)
Subject: Question: Athena Widgets - Toggle
Keywords: XawToggleSetCurrent Toggle Athena Widget
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 22:44:08 GMT

Do any of you guys work with Athena Widgets? Specificaly
with the toggleWidgetClass.  I am calling XawToggleSetCurrent()
and it doesn't work.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Charlie Rabell
---------------
castor@athena.mit.edu
castor@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Newsgroups: ba.windows.x
From: wongl@vccsouth19.its.rpi.edu (Lance Andrew Wong)
Subject: X info.
Reply-To: wongl@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 00:44:21 GMT

Hello, does anyone know of an ftp site that has general descriptions and
information about the X windows system.  I'm looking for things like command
info and programming info.


Keywords: 

Newsgroups: ba.windows.x
From: bingcros@leland.Stanford.EDU (Richard Crosby)
Subject: Motif Developers Group
Organization: Highland Software, Palo Alto, CA
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 18:11:30 GMT

Hi.  Could someone please e-mail me info about the next meeting of
the Motif Developers Group (and Drinking Society or something similar
sounding) that meets in Sunnyvale (or is it Mountain View?)  Thanks.

Rich Crosby
rsc@hisoft.com
From: rjwill6@pbsdts.sdcrc.pacbell.com (Rod Williams)
Newsgroups: ba.motss
Subject: Clinton in Bay Area Today
Date: 27 Jul 92 14:37:34 GMT
Distribution: ba
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Francisco
Originator: rjwill6@pbsdts.sdcrc.pacbell.com

Bill Clinton will be visiting the Tandem offices in
Cupertino this (Monday) afternoon -- around 1:00 pm
I think.  Later, he'll attend a rally in San Francisco,
at 24th & Mission, starting around 3:30 pm.

For more info about Clinton/Gore '92, call 415/978-9392
-- 
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
rod williams -=- pacific bell -=- san francisco -=- rjwill6@pacbell.com
From: mickw@autodesk.com (Mick Washbrook)
Newsgroups: ba.motss
Subject: Re: Olympics
Keywords: blah blah
Date: 27 Jul 92 18:36:53 GMT

In article <1992Jul24.175857.13257@ads.com>, henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch) writes:
> jav@rhiannon.Sitka.Sun.COM (Joyce Vanderpoorten) wrote: 
> ->I heard that Cable television kept a tally of what were the
> ->three most requested sports to view on this summers triple cast -
> ->Gymnastics, Basketball and Ice Skating.  I hope that this is not
> 
> a) who cares?
> b) what has this got to do with ba.motss?
> oh, i got it: you're a horsie fan, and want to know why the rest of us
> aren't watching, right?

Well I was watching bloody volleyball at 1:30 last night waiting for the
Greco-Roman wrestling. Did they ever get round to showing it? I gave up
in the end and went to bed.

Motss relevance: sweat, muscles, testosterone.


--
From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
Newsgroups: ba.motss
Subject: Re: Olympics
Keywords: blah blah
Date: 27 Jul 92 17:27:46 GMT
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton

pauli@sgi.com (Paul Isaacs) wrote: 
->    No, but I'm a gymnast fan. I can't think of anything with more motss
->    appeal than that. Yum.

then you must have missed the photos of the wrestlers in today's sf
chron (they look so sweaty and fabulous) ... or maybe you missed the
gentleman who was the flagbearer for american samoa (complete with
traditional polynesian tattoos and indigenous garb, and abs and pecs
to die for).

--
# henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc.  / <henry@ads.com>
Newsgroups: ba.motss
From: wu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Alice Wei Wu)
Subject: kd lang
Originator: wu@Xenon.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Distribution: ba
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:06:43 GMT


hi all.
i may have an extra kd lang ticket for tuesday, aug 4 at the oakland
pavilion.  the guy i'm buying them from is selling them for $30 a piece,
and i need to get back to im in a few hours, so let me know if you're 
interested.

a.
From: jav@rhiannon.Sitka.Sun.COM (Joyce Vanderpoorten)
Newsgroups: ba.motss
Subject: Olympics
Date: 24 Jul 1992 15:49:25 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: rhiannon.sitka.sun.com
Keywords: blah blah

I heard that Cable television kept a tally of what were the
three most requested sports to view on this summers triple cast -
Gymnastics, Basketball and Ice Skating.  I hope that this is not
a representation of Americas knowledge of summertime sports. 
Newsgroups: ba.motss
From: ddaniel@xymox.palo-alto.ca.us (D. Daniel Sternbergh)
Subject: Looking for medical recommendations
Organization: Jade and Jett Incorporated
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 03:16:21 GMT

I know someone seems to post an article like this, looking for
recommendations for something or other, practically every other month
-- perhaps we need a newsgroup -- but our medical plan at work has
started and I need to find both a physician and a dentist.  Does
anyone know of either in the South Peninsula (I live in Palo Alto,
work in San Jose where 280 intersects 880) that they would be willing
to recommend?

Many thanks,


	== Daniel ==

---------------------------
D. Daniel Sternbergh  
ddaniel@xymox.palo-alto.ca.us
From: pauli@sgi.com (Paul Isaacs)
Newsgroups: ba.motss
Subject: Re: Olympics
Keywords: blah blah
Date: 24 Jul 92 21:29:57 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics

In article <1992Jul24.175857.13257@ads.com> henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch) writes:
>jav@rhiannon.Sitka.Sun.COM (Joyce Vanderpoorten) wrote: 
>->I heard that Cable television kept a tally of what were the
>->three most requested sports to view on this summers triple cast -
>->Gymnastics, Basketball and Ice Skating.  I hope that this is not
>->a representation of Americas knowledge of summertime sports. 
>
>a) who cares?
    I though it was funny.

>b) what has this got to do with ba.motss?
>oh, i got it: you're a horsie fan, and want to know why the rest of us
>aren't watching, right?

    No, but I'm a gymnast fan. I can't think of anything with more motss
    appeal than that. Yum.

    pauli.
From: zampicem@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Mike Zampiceni)
Newsgroups: ba.motss
Subject: GLS South Bay hike this Sunday
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:09:29 GMT
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server

The Gay and Lesbian Sierrans activity section of the Loma Prieta Chapter
of the Sierra Club invites you to participate in a hike this Sunday,
August 2nd. The Saratoga Toll Road hike is a 9-mile loop that will traverse
4.5 miles of the historic Saratoga Toll Road built as a logging road
in 1871. It will also cover part of the 30-mile Skyline-to-the-Sea trail
built about 100 years later. The hike is mostly shaded with a few
spectacular Big Basin vistas. 

Bring plenty of water and a lunch and meet at the Billy DeFrank Center
in San Jose at 8:30 a.m. If you have questions, contact George Hays at
408-265-7341, or Illong Huang at 408-997-1015.
From: thuan@garnet.berkeley.edu (Thuan Nguyen)
Newsgroups: ba.motss
Subject: "Portrait of a Marriage" on KQED channel 9
Followup-To: bisexual, Edwardian England
Date: 24 Jul 1992 20:54:19 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: ba
NNTP-Posting-Host: garnet.berkeley.edu

I was surprised at what I saw in part 1 of "Portrait of a Marriage" on 
Channel 9.  The story is about an upper class English couple, 
Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, both of whom are bisexuals.   
The setting is England around the time of World War I.  

I didn't know anything about the story when I tuned in, so I was 
pleasantly surprised that it had significant gay/lesbian content (there are 
some woman-to-woman romantic scenes in Part 1 that are rather 
daring by American TV standards). 

David Haig, who plays Harold Nicolson, is very cute.  May be he'll reveal 
more of himself in parts 2 and 3... 

"Portrait of a Marriage", part 2, will be shown on Sunday, 7/26 at 9 p.m.
on Channel 9.
From: sarahb@womyn.esd.sgi.com (Sarah Broadwell)
Newsgroups: ba.motss
Subject: Re: GLS South Bay hike this Sunday
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:00:07 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Gay and Lesbian Sierrans in Loma Prieta Chapter? Since when?
This is great. Last I knew the only GLS was in SF. Are there other
chapters? I'm going to be in Napa starting in Aug, and curious if ther
is anything there, or if I could get info on maybe(??) starting one.

Who should I contact?

thanks for the info, unfortunatly I won't be able to make the hike 
this Sunday, but I'm excited to know the GLS has interest outside 
of SF.

--sarah
From: drp@dosbears.UUCP (David R. Preston)
Newsgroups: ba.motss
Subject: Street Fairs
Date: 24 Jul 92 18:10:31 GMT
Reply-To: drp@dosbears.uucp
Organization: DosBears

Just a reminder that the "Up Your Alley" (formerly "Dore Alley")
street fair is Sunday, August 2nd, from around 11am to 6pm, more
or less, at Dore Alley and Folsom St.

"Up Your Alley" is kind of a warm-up for the Folsom Street Fair,
Sept. 20th, same approximate time and location, but much bigger.
Folsom St. Fair caps off Leather Week; expect to see lots of
international visitors (i.e. fresh meat :-).

I'm not sure about the Castro Street Fair, but it is usually two
weeks later, which would make it Oct. 4th.

--
       David R. Preston  drp@dosbears.uucp dosbears@netcom.com
          We're here, we're bored, but we won't be ignored!
   B4 f+ t- k+ s-/+ r P8/4 S6 b+/- g- l-/+ y- z/! n o+/++ x a+ u v-- j++
          D. R. Preston 584 Castro St. #614 SF CA 94114 USA
From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
Newsgroups: ba.motss
Subject: Re: Olympics
Keywords: blah blah
Date: 24 Jul 92 17:58:57 GMT
Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton

jav@rhiannon.Sitka.Sun.COM (Joyce Vanderpoorten) wrote: 
->I heard that Cable television kept a tally of what were the
->three most requested sports to view on this summers triple cast -
->Gymnastics, Basketball and Ice Skating.  I hope that this is not
->a representation of Americas knowledge of summertime sports. 

a) who cares?

b) what has this got to do with ba.motss?

oh, i got it: you're a horsie fan, and want to know why the rest of us
aren't watching, right?

--
# henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc.  / <henry@ads.com>
Newsgroups: ba.motss
From: sarahb@womyn.esd.sgi.com (Sarah Broadwell)
Subject: ACTIVISM: (REMINDER) Give Levi-Strauss A Call!
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:35:50 GMT

I just called the local phone number, and they asked me to call
the 800 number. Any way the man was very nice, and appreciated
my comments.

that number in case you don't already have it is 
                 1-800-872-5384

do call
--sarah
Xref: sparky ba.motss:1345 alt.politics.homosexuality:5182
From: owen@Autodesk.COM (Owen Rowley)
Newsgroups: ba.motss,alt.politics.homosexuality
Subject: Shame on the Vatican and the POPE
Date: 24 Jul 92 20:04:21 GMT
Followup-To: alt.politics.homosexuality
Organization: Autodesk Inc., Sausalito CA, USA


ZAP the VATICAN
and
The Popes violent Homophobia

Demonstrate in front of St Mary's Catholic Cathedral
on Sunday July 26th, 1992
10:30 AM till 1:00 PM ( during High Mass)

Geary Blvd at Gough st, S.F. Ca.

Come in Queer/Gay or outrageous church drag or
simply in your Queer sunday best.

Last Satyrsday the Vatican ordered all Roman Catholic Bishops in the 
U.S. to politically lobby & push to block any further Gay-Lesbian 
rights legislation in the USA ; and to overturn all existing such
legislation. 

( in fact it is a violation of IRS tax law for the church to do so
this edict proves that the church places itself above the law.
Just say no to the church!)

The Vatican wants to keep its own church and all other non-church members
stuck back in the Medieval Ages. Seperate church and state. 
Tax the Catholic church, they are in violation of the law, and 
the clearly defined penalty for this transgresson is loss of their
Tax free privilege.

for information call QUEERLINE (415) 985-7141

spread the word...
Shame shame shame .. on the Vatican and the Pope.
They who preach love and spread hate.
By their fruits shall ye know them :-)
Newsgroups: ba.motss
From: rjfleck@cmn15.Stanford.EDU (R. J. Fleck)
Subject: Re: "Portrait of a Marriage" on KQED channel 9
Organization: CCRMA, Stanford University
Distribution: ba
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 16:49:46 GMT

In article <#3km6vp.markl@netcom.com> markl@netcom.com (Mark Lentczner) writes:
>>I was surprised at what I saw in part 1 of "Portrait of a Marriage" on 
>>Channel 9.  The story is about an upper class English couple, 
>>Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, both of whom are bisexuals.   
>
>I reccomend the book very strongly!  It is far better than this production
>and things are spelled out with much better clarity and sincerity than
>this TV production.
>
>Just my $0.02 (why was the cent sign excluded from ASCII?)
>
>-mark lentczner
> B2-4 t- g+(+) f s+ k+ r+v cd
> markl@netcom.com


i would second mark's recommendation (throw in another $.02)... i
pulled the book out of the library a couple of days ago... vita's
writing is honest and straightforward and paints a vivid portrait...
will provide interesting insight as well to anyone interested in
literature and thought of the period and locale (ie woolf,
bloomsbury...etc.)
 
the title of the book is the same and its author is the son of the
central figures, nigel nicolson...

best, rj

ps. hello mark... :-)