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...Hotel in Manhattan over to Flushing Meadows, site of the U.S. Open. In the past four years the site of the Open has changed and improved so much. The grounds now are comprised of the 23,000-seat Arthur Ashe stadium, the 10,000-seat Louis Armstrong stadium, the grandstand court and some 17 other courts with various size seating capacity. In addition, the grounds are spacious and well landscaped and the crowds are astounding...
...most prestigious rowing event in the world, replete with a large grandstand, enormous crowds, and a mandatory dress code, Harvard’s protest fell upon deaf ears. The Crimson lightweights were ousted from competition before they ever really got started. Cambridge cruised to an easy victory and went on to claim the Ladies’ Challenge Plate on Sunday over 2004 winner Leander Club (England...
...also been a vintage year for high-level defections around the world. The most celebrated involved Vitaly Yurchenko, the KGB agent who defected to the U.S. and, three months later, made a grandstand return to the U.S.S.R., claiming that the CIA had kidnaped and tortured him. Information he supplied led to the arrest of Pelton and implicated a former CIA underling, Edward Howard, who fled the country in September. Yet the cases do little to clear up the mystery of whether Yurchenko's defection was real; the two small fish he delivered may have been mere throwaways designed to distract...
...cheap”—to head off the criticism of Senior Gift Plus he and others were expecting. “The counterattack was really, ‘oh you guys basically just want to save money, and be on a moral high horse or grandstand...
...made our way out to right field, and up to the section they've erected out there atop the grandstand roof. There are tables, standing room, a big bar, a food court with everything from really good sausage sandwiches to really wonderful New England clam chowder. It's a small, elbow-to-elbow party out there, and on a cool day when the sun would bear down on right-center the whole game, it was the perfect place...