Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coach seven years ago. So it did not take long for Green Bay to start comparing Devine unfavorably with Lombardi. Shy and softspoken, he lacks the bluster and magnetism of the late leader. Like any coach fresh from a college campus, he arrived on the chilly shores of Lake Michigan with quite a bit to learn about the pro game...
...Salt Lake City...
...dual role of Odette-Odile in Swan Lake is one of ballet's supreme challenges, and there are many women who meet it with grace and liquid beauty. Plisetskaya, though, is unique. In the limpid forest glade scenes of Act II, most good dancers prettily suggest a girl imitating a swan. In a breathtaking act of theatrical magic, Plisetskaya somehow becomes a lovely humanoid swan giving a passable imitation of a shy maiden. This remarkable ballerina is now 48, and her short, chunky legs have clearly lost some of their spring. But Plisetskaya's legs seem almost secondary...
First-nighters were lucky enough to see Plisetskaya display two startlingly different aspects of her phenomenal talent. She began the evening by dazzling the Metropolitan Opera House audience as Odette in the second act of Swan Lake, and ended it by starring in Carmen Suite, a ballet created especially for her (a rare tribute in the Soviet Union). In between, a dozen or so other soloists performed snippets from the stodgy Bolshoi repertory that allowed them to show off little more than their remarkable discipline...
International cargo trade moving in and out of the ports is averaging only half as much as last year, and two-thirds less than the record 8.6 million tons moved in 1971. Patrick J. Sullivan, secretary-treasurer of the Great Lakes district of the International Longshoremen's Association, asserts that less than one-third of the 7,000 longshoremen working lake docks have been close to adequately employed this year. "Last year," says P. George Bechtold, a Chicago terminal company official, "we had 53 vessels dock at our facility at Lake Calumet. You know how many we have...