Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could get past the snarling scrooges at the box office and forget about the corrugated cardboard barn that is Boston's memorial to war, you were in for one of this spring's purer aesthetic moments. Britain's Royal Ballet was in town last week...
They tell me that the second program with Paradise Lost, a new ballet which choreographer Roland Petit created especially for Nureyev and Fonteyn, was an exciting evening's worth. We didn't manage to get beyond the box office...
Lyon was leading Sochaux, 2-1, with three minutes to play in the French soccer championships, when a Lyon player thwunked the ball toward the sidelines. Up it sailed, completely out of the playing area and-zut alors!-landed smack in the presidential box. A pandemonium of plenipotentiaries was averted when Charles de Gaulle, 76, whipped the ball back toward the field, as thousands cheered. "It was good. It was good. I had a fine time," said le grand Charles later, presenting the winner's cup to Lyon and bussing each team captain on both cheeks...
...mask the army supplies you with, they have a little metal box of amyl nitrate. It's to be used if you've been exposed to syanide or another blood gas. It comes in little ampules and your supposed to break these ampules and then put them in the eye pieces of your gas mask. It smells something like banana oil and it's about a 15 to 20 minute mind-expander. I don't know how much gas warfare there is in Vietnam--they don't tell you--but they make damn sure you know how to use your...
Ominous Evidence. Crazy Horse began quite by accident when a patrol of Montagnard mercenaries, led by a U.S. Special Forces sergeant, "zapped" a North Vietnamese platoon in the mountain massif to the rear of the Air Cav's An Khe headquarters. In a tin box on one of the Communist bodies was a Chinese mortar sight, on others a compass, quadrant and binoculars: ominous evidence that the North Vietnamese might be preparing to clobber An Khe with mortar fire in preparation for an assault. Into the mountains swept chopper loads of Air Cavalrymen to "spoil" the Red attack before...