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Their routine was unvaried. At an imperceptible signal from stiffly erect Colonel Podhajsky, eight smartly dressed riders doffed their two-cornered hats in a courtly bow to the crowd. Then eight white stallions paraded in stately fashion through an intricate precision quadrille. The spotlight event was an exhibition of cadenced, old-school courbettes, croupades and caprioles, all of them stylizations of the leaping, twisting, fighting and frolicking of high-spirited horses in pasture...
...Everything is reduced to the very idea of economy," observes Bronstein. "One erect triangle for the architecture of the figure ... a beautiful single hand . . . and one truth of the face-the skull. Everything is rigid, motionless, everything, save the living eyes...
...mayors and civilian defense leaders went back home knowing little more than before. They carried away one facetious suggestion from Toledo's Mayor Michael DiSalle on how to protect some, but not all, cities from attack. Places like Toledo, he gagged, might erect large neon signs on its buildings pointing the way to Cleveland and Detroit...
...Pastures, Anna Lu-casta), which CBS will lease for five years. In Hollywood, CBS announced last week that it was also buying a 13-acre site now occupied by Gilmore Stadium, the ball park of the Pacific Coast League Hollywood Stars. At a cost of $35 million, CBS will erect a five-building Television City there, hopes to be telecasting its first shows...
...letters stressed two main points: the fact that Allston Burr's bequest carried with it a "moral obligation" to erect a new Club, and the urgent immediate need for the new building...