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...gave the location as six miles south of St. Shotts on the southern tip of Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula. That is about 85 miles south-southwest of the Newfoundland capital of St. John...
...Jersey's Giants Stadium will feature more stars than there are in heaven, to use MGM's old motto. Throughout the weekend, rockets will glare, bands will blare, sails will billow, pigeons swoop and spectators whoop; 200 square dancers will hop, 300 tap dancers will bop, Frankie Avalon and Francis Sinatra will croon while audiences swoon, and more than 12,000 immigrants will pledge undying allegiance to their new country...
...fiddle players; an 800-voice chorus; a 250-voice gospel choir; an 850-member drill team; 300 jazzercize dancers; 200 square dancers and 300 tap dancers --and, of course, those tenscore Elvis Presley impersonators. All that plus Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, Elizabeth Taylor, the Temptations, the Four Tops, Frankie Avalon, Waylon Jennings, Billy Preston, Patti LaBelle, Shirley MacLaine, Gene Kelly, Liza Minnelli, the Pointer Sisters, Charlton Heston. And Fabian...
...Disney cable channel. The comedy casts Funicello as a suburban housewife whose family gets rich on an incredible streak of contest winning but finally "goes back to being the nice family we once were." Next for Funicello? Would you believe a reunion with her old beach-blanket beau, Frankie Avalon, 44, complete with a-that's right-Beach Party '85? But no wild bikinis, please...
...year Atari and Mattel were the major competitors. Between 1979 and 1982 their profits surged from less than $80 million to $471 million, and the potential seemed unlimited. But their triumphs attracted a fleet of market invaders, including Coleco, Imagic, CBS, 20th Century-Fox, Parker Bros. Milton Bradley and Avalon Hill. By the end of last year, at least 30 firms were in the battle...