Word: contests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leaps to Rock. After attending a matinee of West Side Story, the whole company paid an onstage visit to the cast, soon began communicating in a spontaneous contest of dance leaps and turns. When the Russians outleaped and outturned them, the West Siders took refuge in a whirl of rock 'n' roll. To their astonishment, the Muscovites went right into rock 'n' roll too. The Russians also went downtown to Michael Herman's Folk Dance House, studiously followed a caller through the intricacies of such American classics as Kentucky Mountain Running Set, Paw Paw Patch...
...Matched against Jämsä in a contest to see who could stay buried alive longer in a coffin, a Finnish fakir was dug up in hysterics after 21 hours, subsequently gave up fakiry. Jämsä stayed down for 50 hours, showed no ill effects other than a determination never to try it again...
...Weary of beauty-queen contests, Jämsä strapped on a corset, fluffed up his flowing, brown hair, and entered himself in the annual Maid of the North contest in Rovaniemi, capital of Finnish Lapland. "I didn't drink then, was much slimmer, and managed to turn out really quite a beautiful face," recalls Jämsä. Well padded, he looked fine in the required Finnish national costume and evening dress, got through an interview with the judges by pleading hoarseness and hiding his hands under net gloves. The judges gave him third prize...
Some 500 Harvard ROTC cadets will parade in the annual joint military review at Soldiers Field this afternoon. The review features a contest among the drill teams of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Officer Training units at 2:30 p.m., and a formal parade, led by the Harvard Band, at 3:15 p.m. Inspection by members of the Overseers' Visiting Committee will follow...
Into everyone's life a little rain must fall, but enough is enough. The varsity lacrosse team has had enough. Yesterday's scheduled contest with Tufts was postponed after four ducks and six sea-gulls were sighted swimming on the field...