Word: circuit
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...fashioned the ART into a virtual facsimile of the congressional chambers. Chandeliers, oak tables, and even the ubiquitous scurrying page serve to paint a faithful picture of reality. To add to the reality or rather, surreality of the committee hearings, a network news investigation is conducted via closed circuit television throughout the play. Five television screens have been hoisted above the different seating sections to effect the play-like hearings, or rather, the hearing-like play...
...stem the flow of drugs and illegal aliens across its 2,000-mile border with Mexico, the U.S. has resorted not only to armed patrols but also to fences, closed-circuit television monitors and electronic sensors. Now it is making a last-ditch effort -- literally. For one thing, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will expand its force of border patrolmen by a third, to 4,300, by year's end. On top of that, the INS announced last week that it plans to dig a $2 million ditch along a four-mile stretch of border near San Diego, where some...
...Quincy House resident also had an illustrious career on the junior circuit. During his first year in the 18-and unders, he was ranked seventh in the country, but he missed his second year becasue of a broken...
Harvard has ruled the national squash circuit since its inception as a varsity team in 1922. Princeton did not join the national powerhouse scene until the 1960s...
...Francisco State University, retired from the U.S. Senate in 1982. He is honorary chairman of U.S. English, which seeks to make English the official language of the U.S. -- ABBIE HOFFMAN, cofounder of the Youth International Party, is an environmental activist, antidrug advocate and a fixture on the college lecture circuit. -- JAMES LOVELL JR., Apollo 8 astronaut, is executive vice president of Centel Corp., a Chicago telecommunications and electric utilities firm. -- DICK MARTIN, cohost of Laugh-In, is now a television director. His credits include episodes of Newhart and Sledge Hammer. -- EUGENE McCARTHY, antiwar presidential candidate, retired from the U.S. Senate...