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...lilting strains of Johann Strauss's Graduation Ball wafted through Cortina, Italy, as a sturdy blonde girl glided around the open-air rink. The music leaped, and the girl leaped too-a twisting "double axel" that sent her hurtling through the air until she glided back on the ice. The music played on, and each time it soared, she soared-through intricate "flying camels," "double toe-loops" and "flying sit-spins." The performance ended. The Netherlands' Sjoukje Dijkstra, 21, smiled sweetly, acknowledging the bravos. She smiled again, less demurely, when the judges announced her score...
This summer, while excavating below the temple's courtyard, the archaeologists for the first time saw that the ruins there were a building housing an open-air shrine and separated from the rest of the city by an enclosure wall. Along one side was a series of rooms, used perhaps by resident priests, erected in the 13th century B.C. The structure was rebuilt a number of times during the next two centuries, but the open-air shrine and sacred area remained on the same spot, though the floor level was raised with each building period...
...their names belongs another: Robert Stolz. In his long career, Stolz has written almost as many operettas as the other three combined. Now 82. Stolz is the grand old man of operetta, the sole survivor of the golden age of popular Viennese music (1910-25). At Austria's open-air amphitheater on Lake Constance last week, Old Composer Stolz was still at work. Tall and gaunt, he mounted the podium and led the orchestra into a performance of Trauminsel (Isle of Dreams). It was his 43rd full-length operetta, and it was pure Viennese delight...
Bardstown, Ky., Dan Talbott Amphitheater: The Stephen Foster Story, by America's open-air bard, Paul Green...
...Polish city of Gniezno on a pilgrimage in honor of Poland's first patron saint. St. Adalbert.* Though city officials barred the procession from its traditional route through the center of town because of "traffic problems." 8.000 hymn-singing worshipers solemnly marched in a cold drizzle to an open-air Mass before the 980-year-old cathedral. Predicted the cardinal: despite continuing Communist threats, "the church in Poland will continue for another millennium...