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...action will appeal to youngsters most of all. The "Carosello of the Roses," for example, is a dazzling sword fight between six horsemen who try to slash short-stemmed roses from each other's helmets. The "Coliseum" num ber is even more savage. It opens with a gladiator whipping a half-clad "Roman slave," winds up with two four-horse chariots racing madly around the ring to see who can get to the victim first. The winner has the honor of tying the slave behind his chariot and dragging him across the arena and through the exit at full...
...Eats Hamburger!" Biggest kickoff for the new season is still New York's International Flower Show, which last week attracted some 300,000 flower lovers, who paraded through the Coliseum for the first, if fleeting, glimpse of spring. More than ever, it was a strange hybrid of beauty and banality, a midsummer's daydream constantly interrupted by nightmares. Lush gardens with brooks and splitlog benches, dogwood trees and primrose bushes delighted the enchanted while only a whiff away peddlers hawked scented sachets and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The New York Botanical Garden's 500-ft. tropical rain garden...
...days when he used to order the Wildcats right back on the court after the crowd left in order to iron out mistakes made in a game. Actually, Rupp admits, the length of the holiday wasn't entirely his idea: the floor at Kentucky's Memorial Coliseum was being refinished. "But there's no question about it," he says, "I've slowed down. I'm not out to conquer the world any more-just to win all the basketball games my team plays...
Follow the Leader. Quicker, cheaper, lighter, more versatile copiers-that is what all the manufacturers are rushing out. At last week's annual Business Equipment Exposition in Manhattan's massive Coliseum, Dennison Manufacturing Co. showed off a new coin-operated copier for use in banks, libraries or other places where people will pay for reproductions (probable price per letter-size copy: 100). Long Island's Viewlex displayed a 20-lb. copier that retails for $249.50. Such competitors as A. B. Dick, Copease, Bell & Ho well's Ditto subsidiary and Addressograph's Bruning Division introduced...
...purse of $150," reminisced Referee Jack Sheean, "and I matched Knucksey Doherty of Donegal Square with Tim Harrington of Cambridge and told them to be themselves. I figured some of those sedate, quietly dressed society women would scream or faint, but the vestal virgins in the Coliseum never looked on with more calm than these high and haughty dames as they watched these two babies murder each other...