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...Emerald City as Dorothy (Fairuza Balk) rediscovers it is about as wondrous as East Berlin in a brownout. Seems that the Nome King, who is a talking rock (stonily played by Nicol Williamson), has trashed the place and turned its inhabitants into boulders for good measure. Presiding over the ruins is, of course, a wicked witch (Jean Marsh), who lacks a broomstick but has several dozen changes of head in her closet. Her transformations are certain to fill young children with puzzled horror rather than with the delicious mirth that Margaret Hamilton generated with her over-the-top parody...
...grueling 1,100-mile course traversed two mountain ranges, the Yukon River and the frozen Norton Sound. Besting 61 starters and unusually bad weather conditions, as well as overcoming a gender barrier, was Libby Riddles, 28, the first woman ever to win Alaska's Anchorage-to-Nome Iditarod dogsled race. Two weeks into the 18-day trek, while her competition opted to sit out a fierce snowstorm, the musher from Teller, Alaska, pressed on with her team of 13 dogs. Out on the ice, almost unable to see, "I kept telling myself how foolish I was being for doing this...
...boosted the Crimson into a tie for first place in the lvy Longue with nome other than Brown--a squad Harvard (now 7-5 overall, 5-2 lvy) has defeated twice, thanks to a 6-4 decision in November...
Trouble was, Jesson was over in the Klondike region of Canada, hundreds of miles removed from the strike. He cast about for transportation, found sled dogs in scarce supply and finally bought a bicycle. He made it to Nome in a month, along the way passing an astonished Indian, who, never having encountered a bike, exclaimed, "White man, he set down, walk like hell...
Yankee ingenuity is not new to this forbidding part of the world. In the last winter of the 19th century, for example, a prospector named Ed Jesson heard that gold had been found on the beach at Nome...