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Euro Disney's new park feels like a work-in-progress. The cast members - that's what Disney calls employees - are still settling in and learning their lines. But you look around and also wonder, "Where are the rest of the rides?" Walt Disney Studios has only nine attrac-tions, one of which - the Flying Carpets over Agrabah - is a glorified merry-go-round that will bore adults, and another - the Aerosmith-themed Rock 'n' Roller Coaster - that isn't appropriate for the youngest of youngsters. (Yes, Steven Tyler is a scary-looking man, but the ride also...
Indeed, many hospitals welcome the Caribbean imports. "Our patients are very happy," says Dr. Larkin of Methodist, an inner-city hospital that has trouble attrac ing U.S. medical students and accepts about 20 offshore transfers every year. Says a nurse from nearby Coney Island Hospital: "The Caribbean students are more humble. The attitude of mainland students is to let others do the dirty work...
...Dodd Day festivities in Connecticut, then Vice President Lyndon Johnson was to be the star attrac tion. Former Dodd Aide James Boyd, one of the four ex-staffers who ran sacked the Senator's records and fed copies to Columnist Pearson, testified that a Johnson aide named Ivan Sinclair had demanded a letter stating the purposes of Dodd Day. Boyd wrote the letter, he said, but does not remember if he sent it. Earlier this month, Sinclair signed an affidavit for the Stennis committee; its last sentence said that the "purpose of Dodd Day was to raise funds...
...Sinc. At the annual Dania, Fla. Tomato Festival, squads of barefooted young ladies in T-shirts and shorts threw tomatoes at each other. Nick Gulas, a Nashville promoter, proudly announced a Seven Girl Rassle Royal (every girl battling for herself) at the Hippodrome. A widow who described herself as attrac., vivac., affect. & sinc. advertised for a husband in the Los Angeles Mirror. Her reasons: "Wd. enjoy mat. rt. man bec. I did enjoy marriage & comp. Very sinc. Exchange ref. & rec. snap...
...Roger La Honte" was the attrac tion at the Hollis St Theatre, where it will have a run of another week...
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