C10-Sanday News, November 16, 1980 About the sec And other notes on Washington The Washington D.C. National Portrait Gallery isn’t a patch on the one in London, England. If you don’t think you'll get to England in the near future, have a look. I did, but luckily planned the visit to coincide with lunchtime. Smooth move! The cafeteria is good, reasonably priced and not too busy in the off-season. They make a different type of homemade soup each day, the sandwiches are when you orde and the salads are crisp and big. My whole lunch was less than $4 and I enjoyed it. Maybe I'm a stern critic but the lay-out in this museum could sure use the expert who set up the Philadelphia Museum of Art. What a difference! Too much American Modern for my taste, especially one totally tactless presentation called “The Runaway Match’’ by William Golbrook Beard (1825- 1900). If you get your jollies by seeing a bunch of trayel- wise If you’re a charter member of the KLAN, you'll probably enjoy it. NOTES ON WASHINGTON Here, from my scribbled notebook are a few hints: Cabs: Instead of meters, Washington cabs work on an area system. The cab costs $1.45 to take you anywhere in one area. To cross a zone costs an additional 65¢. Not expensive for more than one _person, in fact cheaper than by Barbara McCreadie monkeys dressed in clothes participating in a wedding ceremony — that’s. the painting for you! I remember seeing equally tasteless offerings in a southern USA museum — on postcards, vintage 1840. the subway for a group. The drivers aren't fnendly. e“Sans Souci” restaurant used to be the hangout for some big names such as Jacqueline Kennedy and Art Buchwald. They've moved to ‘La Maison Blanche”. eAddresses: Washington has four quadrants — _ ll with the same streets and avenues. Make sure you know if the place you're looking for is north, east, west or south. The lettered streets (A, B, C, etc.,) run east-west, everything Starting at the Capitol Building. eThe Einstein statue in front of the. national Academy of Sciences was done in “chewing-gum bronze” by Robert Berks. Worth a visit. *Embassy Row on Massachussets Ave. houses a lot ot the international elite. One of the few that is open to the public is the Austrian Embassy. eWant to write to Liz Taylor Warner a letter? Her address is 3240 “S” Street, Georgetown. eSafeway's, on Wisconsin Ave., Georgetown, stocks foods that you'll never get anywhere else. It caters to the embassies from all parts of the world so expect some way-out foods. GUTS! That is the sym- bol carried by the buses from the Georgetown University transportation Society. Nice touch. *Roosevelt Island allows THE JEFFERSON MEMORIAL fs one of the many toarist attractions worth exploring during a visit to Washington, D.C. 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