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Harvard's indoor track, also designed by Oommen, was built in 1977 using the same concept as the outdoor track. But because it is housed in the Gordon Indoor Track and Tennis Building, where the temperature remains relatively stable, it has not experienced the same problems with bubbling. The indoor track is regarded as one of the world's fastest and close to a dozen other universities have already used the same design...
...versions are introduced. In 1981 Arizona's opening game pulled in a robust $5.4 million a week; by its second year, the take had plummeted to $900,000. (It now averages $1.2 million a week.) "In lottery operations, you have to keep innovating to be successful," says Douglas Gordon, executive director of the Washington, B.C., lottery, which started in 1982 with an "instant" rub-off card, later added a three-digit numbers game, and last month introduced a Lotto contest...
...reason for this spate of dangling story lines is hardly a mystery. As fictional characters from Little Nell to Flash Gordon have proved, nothing keeps audience interest perking like an unresolved predicament, followed by the tantalizing line "... to be continued." TV's cliffhanger mania began four years ago, when J.R. was gunned down by a mysterious assailant on the final episode of Dallas' 1979-80 season. After a summer of suspense, the "Who Shot J.R.?" mystery was solved (it was his sister-in-law Kristin) in a segment that drew the largest audience of any TV program...
...DIED. Gordon Jenkins, 73, pop-music arranger and conductor whose shimmering, swirling string backgrounds enhanced the performances, on records and TV, of such stars as Judy Garland, Peggy Lee and Frank Sinatra; of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease); in Malibu, Calif. Pianist Jenkins started composing and arranging with the Swing Era's big bands, wrote Benny Goodman's closing theme, Goodbye, and won a Grammy Award for his stylish 1965 arrangement of Sinatra's It Was a Very Good Year...
Albert H. Gordon '23, donor of the Indoor Track and Tennis Center and Chairman of the $350 million Harvard Campaign, Susan Storey Lyman '49, former chairman of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees, and David T. W. McCord '21, once the University's chief fundraiser, will all receive the awards from President...