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...Leftfielder Jim Lemon. 31, a long and lean slugger (6 ft. 4 in.. 205 Ibs.) who finally shortened his gargantuan batting stride, is tied for fourth in homers (21), stands fifth in runs batted...
...home season. Because of the difficulty of shifting the Bolshoi's ponderous sets on the Met's antiquated stage, the company abandoned the idea of a repertory run. Its offering to the glittering opening-night crowd and for the next four performances: Sergei Prokofiev's gargantuan Romeo and Juliet, stretching on for 3½-hours...
Varsity soccer coach Bruce Munro has the gargantuan job this season of building a soccer team out of an ailing goalie, two accident-prone fullbacks, an inexperienced and injury-riddled halfback line, and a forward line which has yet to prove itself as a real scoring threat...
Probing the Deeps. Hidden from the sun, the black bottom is an unimaginably terrifying land of ancient mountain ranges and valleys, somnolent volcanoes, Gargantuan canyons, bottomless chasms (see map)-a land filled with hiding places for a future generation of deeper-diving submarines. Knowledge of this topography as well as of the mysterious currents that flow there will decide the future's underwater wars. Though the seas cover 70% of the earth's surface, oceanographers have carefully mapped only about a third of the world's ocean floor. The Russians have gone full steam on oceanography, have...
...party was given in 1908, in honor of elderly Primitivist Painter Henri Rousseau, by a youthful admirer named Pablo Picasso, who decorated his Montmartre studio with Chinese lanterns and ordered in a "gargantuan supply of wine.'' When the party ended and the sun was rising, Rousseau had long since left his seat of honor (a chair on a crate) and gone home...