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Monster Bash. The convention's biggest party will be Monday night, when 10,000 delegates, alternates and guests will move directly from the official proceedings to Pier 45, near Fisherman's Wharf, for an extravaganza dubbed "Oh, What a Night." Amid miniature replicas of Telegraph Hill's Coit Tower, the Golden Gate Park's Japanese tea garden, Ghirardelli Square and 13 other San Francisco landmarks, conventioneers will wander among open bars and mountains of ethnic foodstuffs from 9 p.m. to midnight in an area the size of four football fields. The $250,000 fandango, paid...
...boys tipped the scales decidedly in their favor. No doubt about it: the Jacksons' tour is a real show-business extravaganza, a four-star eye-glazer and ear-bender replete with laser effects, magic tricks, assorted marvelous machines, sundry intermittent detonations, a finale full of fireworks... and, oh yes, a healthy portion of good solid funk. Soul Train meets Star Wars on the outskirts of Las Vegas. A lot of-quite literal-bang for the buck...
...booth and call a few laps. Smiles a Reagan campaign official: "That ought to be seen at some point by millions of good, solid, Middle Americans." But that is nothing. Some 2 billion are expected to see him as he opens the Olympic Games in a flag-waving extravaganza on July 28 at Los Angeles...
Last week's costly extravaganza, swollen with hordes of simultaneous translators, government aides and journalists, managed to affirm Western solidarity, and it certainly did no harm to Ronald Reagan's chances for reelection. But for all its lofty declarations, it made little progress in finding solutions to the pressing problems the world's major industrial nations face...
...state capital and could boast about being "the crossroads of America," what with U.S. Highways 31, 36, 40, 52 and 136 and Interstate Highways 65, 69, 70 and 74 all converging there. And since 1911, the city has hosted the Indy 500, that annual race-car extravaganza, which drew special attention last week when Rick Mears thrilled 400,000 spectators by winning at a record average speed of 162.6 miles per hour. Alas, for many not enamored of highways and racing, the town remained India-no-place...