Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Celebrity Series season runs from October through April, and concerts are either at Symphony Hall or Jordan Hall. This year will feature such orchestras as the Cleveland Symphony and the London Philharmonic, pianists Claudio Arrau, Rudolf Serkin, and Lazar Berman, vocalists Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Janet Baker, and violinists Henryk Szeryng and Itzhak Perlman. Tickets are about what you'd expect to pay for performers of this magnitude, falling in the $5-$9 range. But if you're going to hear a concert, you might as well hear some of the best...
...Carter organization has set up 48 headquarters in Illinois, and batteries of phone banks are being installed. Carter appears to have serious problems in Ohio's Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), where a Democrat must usually score big to carry the state. Elsewhere in the Midwest, particularly in Iowa, Indiana, Michigan and Nebraska, friction between Democratic regulars and Carter's "amateurs" seems to be easing...
During the bad years, if you took the "D" Train up to the Bronx and the Stadium, you could look forward to ducking firecrackers and waiting to see if Steve Hamilton would throw his famous Folly Floater (a high arc-lob which one day sent a bad-tempered Cleveland Indian literally crawling on his belly back to the dugout after he had whiffed three times on it; this the same day Bobby Murcer hit four consecutive home runs in the Next Mickey contest and Ray Fosse got hit by a cherry bomb which came flying from the second deck after...
...tougher questions. Robert Hughes, Republican chairman of Ohio's Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland, thought that last week's panel tossed too many soft questions at the candidates. "Where were the tough questions? Abortion. Busing. Playboy. The purpose of these debates is to challenge these two guys, and that wasn't done...
...other area sports news, the Red Sox took yesterday off in preparation for the final series of a disappointing season, a three-game set which starts tonight against the Baltimore Orioles. Manager Don Zimmer has tabbed Rick Wise (13-11), Reggie Cleveland (9-9), and the ageless Luis Tiant (21-12) for the last three starts of the year...