Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Democratic hands suddenly fear that the party could be stuck with Carter facing Republican John Connally. And they're convinced that Connally would win. "They're scared stiff," said an insider. "They're trying to see if they can generate an alternative candidate in the event Ted Kennedy doesn...
Even in the unlikely event it decides against a second American plant, Volkswagen, which is engaged in a threeyear, $3.2 billion expansion program that is the largest in its history, has already budgeted about $640 million to build an engine plant in Mexico and to increase production at the Pennsylvania plant from the present 800 autos per day to 1,040 by 1981 . Schmücker's strategy is eventually to make the North American operation 90% self-sufficient, with only transmissions supplied from German plants...
Exactly 363 days before the 1980 Moscow Olympics were due to begin, an Olympic dress rehearsal opened with a mighty spectacle. The event is Spartakiad,the quadrennial two-week games of the U.S.S.R., and its opening ceremony was the kind of show that the Soviet Union does so well, choreographed to a split second bursting with color and life. Before 103,000 people in Lenin Stadium, folk dancers, marching teams, gymnasts and 6,000 card flashers performed with astonishing precision. Ritual welcomes were delivered, the Olympic torch was lighted, and 3,000 doves soared skyward. All in precisely two hours...
What he did was stun the track world with a new record for the mile, still the sport's glamour event. Coe, 22, a Sheffield engineer's son, who was relatively unknown and had run the mile only twice before, had not only whipped a field of a dozen top competitors but did it in a time of 3:49-.4 of a second faster than the mark set by New Zealand's John Walker in 1975. Moreover, just twelve days before, on the same track, Coe had taken the 800-meter race in 1:42.3, lopping...
...only the background song, When You Wish Upon a Star, from the final spacecraft scene, but that small snip changed the mood of the story. "I felt the song was going to be perceived as wistful thinking," says the director today. "The audience perceived the film as a current event." Spielberg may return the song to the soundtrack in what must surely be the most extraordinary case of film tinkering ever: he is readying a revised version of Close Encounters, one of the top ten grossers of all time, for release next spring. Besides trimming sequences and adding scenes, Spielberg...