Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dance marathon staged by New York's City Center? Was that doughty cultural impresario succumbing to the nostalgia craze reviving the 1920s stunts in which competing couples danced away the night-and the day, and sometimes the night again? Not quite. The City Center American Dance Marathon '72, which ended last week at Manhattan's ANTA Theater, was devoted more to the delights of diversity than to endurance. Over a period of six weeks, 20 of the most ruggedly individual dance companies in the U.S. matched style and idea in stalwart succession...
...successes, the City Center hoped to give the companies a kind of exposure and impact that otherwise would be beyond their reach. Alas, ticket sales were disappointing, and the City Center (which tried a similar venture on a smaller scale two years ago) has no immediate plans for another marathon. All the more reason to cheer the companies that most enlivened this one. Items...
...Committee on Rights and Responsibilities, after a marathon six hours of deliberations, found Ellen J. Messing '72-4 guilty last night of charges brought against her by the Administration for her participation in a sit-in at Littauer Center...
...knows, he is not talking. His real name is a closely guarded secret, probably to protect the reputation of his father, who is a Baptist minister in Arizona. What is known is that the singer is a wiry, bleary-looking ex-track star who once won a 26-mile marathon race, then keeled onto a street curb nose first. His still flattened nose is a constant reminder of that day, especially when he walks into a multimirrored bathroom of the 40-room mansion he owns in fashionable Greenwich, Conn. The mansion also sports swastika flags on many of the ceilings...
...tradition the U.S. Secretary of State tries to meet with as many foreign ministers as he can during the opening weeks of the U.N. General Assembly. But the U.N. has grown so rapidly in recent years that what was once routine diplomacy has now become a kind of diplomatic marathon. By the end of this week, Secretary of State Wil liam Rogers - hoarse of voice and red of eye - will have spent eleven days in New York; in that time, he will have held bilateral discussions with no few er than 66 foreign ministers or their deputies, a heavier schedule...