Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...media event was over. That night they would open the Southeastern Fair amid Joie Chitwood's auto thrills show, greased pig contests, the rest. Forty-one dates in 17 days, the beginning of a tour that will go around the world, include major motion pictures and, hopefully, Carson. They came out as a smoke machine smoked--"Rock and Roll Heaven," don't you understand. Hazebrouck/Croce sang "I Got a Name". Women swooned for Bolt/Elvis. He ran out of scarves to give them. There were 75 people in the audience, and they were knocked dead. And the next morning...
...have jeopardized his future bonding. Francis A. Lawton, assistant dean for facilities, says that it is normal procedure for Harvard to call in the bonding company in the sort of situation that arose in the construction of the dining hail, but he refused to comment any further in the event that legal claims arise...
...your summer? You think the Cubbies still have a shot at it, huh? Well, not too much has been happening around here. Oh yeah, there was that Barry Manilow concert in Harvard Stadium in July, but when that's the most exciting Crimson sports event for three months, you can see how things were pretty dead. There were some newsmaking items, though, so listen...
...preference for easy exhibition money over the demands of playing through a grueling tournament has littered the tennis calendar with nonscheduled two-man events and, too often, left promoters and sponsors with literally empty nets. Without top tennis names in the tourneys, gate sales slump and sponsors disappear. Late withdrawals to rest or to nurse phantom injuries-only to have fallen heroes turn up at an exhibition in Puerto Rico, not an orthopedic ward-have become common. As a result, corporations once eager to hitch their brand names to the tennis bandwagon have begun to have second thoughts. American Airlines...
After three years of prodigious calculations, he determined that some black holes must have been created during the birth of the universe, in the cataclysmic explosion called the Big Bang. These black holes, as opposed to those formed later by the collapse of stars, are minuscule; their event horizons are no larger than the circumference of a proton or other atomic particle. Subsequently, he found that they seemed to be radiating energy. That was such a startling break with the accepted concept of black holes that Hawking at first doubted his results. But no one has yet uncovered flaws...