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...Time to Leap. And why did they all come, 362 strong? Because, said Obolensky, "93½% of them are my friends." And since all the bills were paid by the Mary Carter Paint Co. (which owns the new Paradise Island Hotel, along with A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, who retains 25%), the guests knew that le beau Serge would program their kind of weekend in the sun. He was there from the instant they entered Nassau customs, smoothing the way and shepherding them into the black and white Cadillac limousines. For entertainment, he arranged an "informal" dinner the first night...
...addition to the white coral beach, Obolensky offered for diversion gambling at the casino until 6 a.m. In the afternoon, he organized an exhibition tennis match, pitting Pancho Segura and Dina Merrill against Pancho Gonzales and Janet Leigh. And when George (Paper Lion) Plimpton leaped onto the court with a cry of "Tennis, anyone?" the Beautiful People sensibly took it as a signal to leap back into their limousines and depart...
...season to produce two more Harvard first places. Willowy Jim Coleman soared 6'3" in the high jump to eclipse the Harvard-N.U. meet record of 6' 2-3/4". And broad jumper John Avault won his first meet of the year with a 21' 9-1/2" leap...
...Hampshire ranks 43rd in state population, commands four electoral votes out of 538, will have only eight 1,333 delegates to the Republican National Convention, and is too insulated and ingrown to offer any faithful reflection of an urban nation's moods and problems. Each leap year, however, the Granite State's psephological irrelevance is submerged by the flood of publicity and punditry over its first-in-the-U.S. presidential primary...
...Electric Christmas was an eight-century leap away from the Pro Musi-ca's usual holiday fare. Every year- including this one-it climaxes its eleven-month season by presenting church performances of two 12th cen-tury music dramas, The Play of Daniel and The Play of Herod. Staged and costumed in period style, these productions unfold in vocal chants and instrumental passages of austere elegance and moving simplicity. White, 43, a musicologist and harpsichordist who took over the Pro Musica after Founder Noah Greenberg died in 1966, has no intention of abandoning such efforts. In fact he plans...