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...Andretti will start the 69th Indy 500 from the second row, just behind Pole-Sitter Pancho Carter and just ahead of Unser. Sons Al Unser Jr. and Michael Andretti will follow in the fourth and fifth rows of brilliantly painted cars scattered three abreast across the asphalt track. A circus kind of calling, racing regularly summons more than one generation of the same family, though these are the only fathers and sons who have ever raced together at Indianapolis. In his christening two years ago, Al Jr., 23, brought a smile to the speedway during the closing laps by trying...
Indeed, by the end of last week, the Gary and Cathy Show had turned into a traveling media circus. NBC picked up the steep tab for the pair's airfares -- in Dotson's case, a chartered jet -- and hotel rooms. The drama seemingly will not end until the final commercial is played on the TV movie that may result from last week's flood of offers for Dotson's life story...
...official debut will take place in Atlanta this week on the 99th anniversary of the original product's birth. The company will transform the city's downtown park into a three-ring circus. Theme for the day: "Step right up to the greatest taste on earth." Coke will also be launching 25,000 red and white balloons, skywriters, banner-flying planes and a skyful of fireworks. Said Coca-Cola Spokesman Robert Hope in a moment of candor: "We're using every glitzy thing you can imagine...
There's one born every minute--and it's not a unicorn. At each performance of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, now appearing in New York City, the crowd is introduced to a coiffed beast with a single horn. The ringmaster calls him a living unicorn. Last week the ASPCA called him a surgical mutilation. And the U.S. Department of Agriculture called him a goat. But the horn, experts conceded, is his own. It apparently was produced at birth by surgically manipulating the two natural horn buds to the center of his head. A press inquiry...
...demonstration should have sputtered out quietly, but due largely to Columbia President Michael I. Sovern's crisis mismanagement, it continues to occupy center stage in a media circus that shows only vague signs of abating. Unwittingly, Sovern has played into the protesters' hands, fanning the flames of controversy and prolonging the firestorm at Morningside Heights...