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With a barrage of bottles, a slice of pizza and a cup of beer, the Crimson sports cube is pleased to present the first "I Never Promised You a Rose Garden" quiz, questions and answers about that ice palace and hardwood haven on Causeway Street, the one and only Boston Garden...
Last week the remaining units of Israel's invasion force withdrew from the West Bank of the Suez Canal. Emblazoned with signs saying GOODBYE AFRICA, HELLO TEL AVIV, tanks, halftracks and packed buses rumbled in a dusty parade across the last causeway, which is being left intact for the Egyptians. One group of paratroopers dived into the canal and swam across. "That is the way we came, and that is the way we are going back," said a half-naked soldier to newsmen...
...which is an accurate enough synopsis of Evening. The setting is Inishnamona, a peninsula that becomes an island when its residents blow up the causeway to the mainland in a short sighted gesture of independence that ends by cutting off the vital tourist trade...
...catch the first cab I see; it is the one that nearly hit me coming our of the Garden onto Causeway St. The cab driver is a trifle taken back, but once he knows where I've come from, he warms up considerably. "What about that Jagger fella? Y'know I usta get sing in a band, a ways back. Usta get laid twenty times a night." The proprietors of the flowers shop are helpful. Particularly when it becomes apparent that six or eight dozen flowers wouldn't be nearly enough. I decide to spend the whole thirty dollars...
...Tuesday afternoon I talk my way past the guard in front of the Bruin's main offices at 150 Causeway Street (next door to the Garden, and the only way anybody could get into the building before the doors would open at 6:30) and walk up the urine-stained loading platform and into the Garden. It's empty except for the union crews helping the Stones road crew set up the stage, and the Garden's assortment of janitorial personnel. The noises are functional, moving equipment, the distant sounds of machinery, the shouted questions of the cleaning women...