Word: garden
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...preaches. When he quit the gospel big top to build himself a university (TIME, Feb. 7), Roberts set his heart on a national basketball championship. Lo, last week there was Oral Roberts University in the quarter-finals of the National Invitation Tournament at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. During the game between O.R.U. and St. John's University, St. John's star Mel Davis had to be carried off the courts with torn tendons in his right knee. Good Samaritan Roberts strode into the St. John's dressing room to offer a three-minute prayer...
...year, the number of employed steel workers fell by 44,000, to 487,000. U.S. Steel Corp. chopped almost 17,000; among others, it dropped 200 engineers in Chicago and 100 scientists, mostly Ph.D.s, at Monroeville, Pa. Two years ago U.S. Steel had 13 administrative vice presidents and 45 garden-variety v.p.s; now the respective totals are four and 38. At Jones & Laughlin Steel's Pittsburgh works, job cuts have bred a strange situation: some high-seniority steelworkers have been kept on only by being bumped to the lower-paying plant cafeteria, where they have replaced waitresses...
Straw Dogs. Ultraviolence with Dustin Hoffman. Garden Theatre, 6, 8, 10. Weekends...
...favorite miniaturist, Jacquemart de Hesdin, is permeated by the Italian trecento-the Madonna stately and subtle as a virgin by Simone Martini. But the greatest impact of Italy was on the artist who was also the greatest of the Berry circle: the Boucicaut Master. An illumination of the Garden of Eden, with Boccaccio sitting reading outside the wall, is full of Italianate elements, from the proportion and drawing of the naked Adam and Eve to the handling of perspective. Yet it is wholly original, and in this exquisite image of paradise, with its angels' wings and apples shining...
...stresses the appearance of Derek Sanderson and the Boston Bruins, though they are present for maybe four of the film's 100 minutes. It's promotional hype, of course, and probably a rip-off, since the admission price is $3. You're better off buying a seat in Boston Garden, sitting with the Gallery Gods, and trying to sort out for yourself what the game is all about...