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...This has not gone entirely unrecognized. On Aug. 1 - Switzerland's 718th birthday - the Swiss National Museum in Zurich opened a new permanent exhibition to chart a history of immigration since the Bronze Age. In a section called "No One Has Been Here All the Time," visitors to the museum are reminded that many famous Swiss have foreign blood. Take tennis superstar Roger Federer: his dad was born South African. Exceptionalism is out of fashion these days. (Well, unless you're Chinese.) Global recession is a great leveler, its seismic shocks felt in big and small nations alike. Even Switzerland...
Later on, Lemieux's back began troubling him, causing him to miss many games through the latter part of his career. Still, in 1997, Lemieux scored his 600th career goal in his 719th game. Gretzky did it in his 718th...
Dolly did it. Last Wednesday, with its 2,718th performance, Hello, Dolly! passed My Fair Lady's record as the longest-running musical on Broadway. Way back on Jan. 6, 1964, Carol Channing opened the show. After nine months, Ginger Rogers took over; then came Martha Raye, Betty Grable, Pearl Bailey (and an all-black cast), Phyllis Diller, and now Ethel Merman, who has extended her contract to Dec. 26, 1970. Considering Dolly's longevity, the question arises, who's next? Producer David Merrick has it figured out. "Liberace. And we can call it Hello, Bruce...
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