Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before last season, there was never any question which team was tops on the Ivy League women's soccer circuit...
...pulling down programs from at least three pay-TV companies. Plus "feeds" from network correspondents hours before the evening news gets on the air. Plus NASA transmissions of pictures from Saturn. Plus soccer from Brazil. Plus the glorious miscellany of perhaps 50 to 60 programs a day, from closed-circuit prizefights to S.R.O. symphony concerts that are beamed off whichever satellite is being tuned...
...less than friendly rivalry between Great Britain's marvelous distance runners Sebastian Coe, 24, and Steve Ovett, 25, has become the track world's version of playing chess by mail. Each year, the two set out on separate paths through the summer track circuit, studiously avoiding head-to-head encounters while carefully selecting races where they have the best chance of breaking each other's world records. In 1979 Coe burst from obscurity by snapping the record in the mile, with a 3-min. 49.0-sec. performance in Oslo (only twelve days after setting a world mark...
...chain, Legal Service Center of Arkans & Levin, found a way to cover a wide territory with one movable office: Partners Peter Levin and Steven Arkans put the essentials inside a 22-ft. converted mobile home, painted their phone number (LEGAL 44) on the sides and launched it on a circuit of some 20 shopping centers...
...winters, of course, almost all of the entertainers look for more formal gigs or depend on conventional jobs. Sosna plays the college circuit and says that he prefers educated audiences because they are far easier to fool, "always looking for a complicated explanation for a trick." It's little kids he refuses to confront. "Too damed perceptive." he says...