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From the looks of Little Bay, one thing was clear. Christo was there. The craggy Australian inlet nine miles from downtown Sydney lay beneath 1,000,000 sq. ft. of clingy, opaque, icky, sticky polypropylene plastic, looking like some improbable flotsam that had drifted in on a high tide, the last relic of a disposal civilization. The Aussies were taking it all in stride. Last weekend, some 2,500 of them happily trooped out to Little Bay and plunked down the modest 20? admission to see what this artist named Christo had wrought...
...tougher than most of Christo's projects. First, permission to wrap the area was obtained from the Prince Henry Hospital, which owns the land and will benefit from the proceeds. Then a task force of 60 volunteers labored for nearly a month over treacherous 80-ft. cliffs. They knotted and secured ropes, sewed the fabric together, and operated the 20 ramset guns used to fire staples into the rock face. The sound of the pounding surf below barred direct communication among the workers, so two-way radios were used. Midway through the project, a gale-force wind ripped...
Elsewhere, one hundred and fifty antiwar protestors were denied permission yesterday to enter Ft. Devens and stage a "Veteran's Day" demonstration of their own. The Student Mobilization Committee planned to leaflet the base, but military police refused to let them enter...
...bridge was eventually forgotten. But in 1967, when Yale Paleontologist John H. Ostrom learned that a new highway was being built through Manchester, he decided to revive the search. After surveying more than 60 bridges in the Manchester area, he ultimately narrowed the hunt to a single 40-ft. span across a small brook on the outskirts of town. Last summer, when the highway builders decided that the old bridge's time had come. Ostrom and his scientific team were ready...
This year Mason and Josephson are back, close to their old selves. The big surprise, however, has been Rookie Runner Larry Smith; at 6 ft. 3 in. and 220 Ibs., he averages four yards a carry, is an excellent receiver and blocker, and can throw the half-back-option pass. Says Gabriel simply, "We just never had this depth before...