Word: outdoors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos spared no expense to pamper his influential guests. They were housed in 14 shiny new glass-and-cement hotels fitted out with such amenities as outdoor golf ranges and waterfalls in the lobbies. Meetings were held in the dazzling, just finished $125 million convention center. To keep the finance ministers and bankers amused between sessions, Marcos and his wife Imelda also brought in an exhibit of ancient Egyptian treasures, the Soviet Union's Bolshoi Ballet and, from the U.S., Pianist Van Cliburn and Metropolitan Opera Soprano Montserrat Caballe. Even the shanties in the city...
...this point, however, the Tufts coach, hard-pressed by scheduling difficulties, insisted that the players move to the more spacious outdoor courts. By a strange coincidence Tufts then went on to sweep three of the remaining four wind-swept matches...
This fall's schedule looks to be considerably less trying than the one in the spring, so, clay or composition, indoor or outdoor, Radcliffe's racquets should dominate all fall...
...will presumably regale visiting delegates with songs of chiding irony and social import. The Convention, a group of comic actors, will open each show with irreverent improvisations on the day's events at the Garden. Up in Central Park, the Schaefer Music Festival offers excellent, inexpensive ($ 1.50-$3) outdoor entertainment. B.B. King, justly renowned for his blues-guitar virtuosity, will appear on July 12. Toots and the Maytals will raise the roof on the 16th with their joyously scruffy reggae music from Jamaica, followed on the 17th by the Earl Scruggs Revue, which purveys a pleasing blend of down...
...buildings are being modernized, and a glass enclosure is being erected to protect outdoor stalls. The Faneuil Hall Marketplace is scheduled to open in late August, and its future looks promising. The lower floors are rented out to merchants and restaurateurs, the upper ones to lawyers and architects. Like neighboring refurbished buildings, the market has a special zest, one that will help make the waterfront a place worth the trip-or the move-to downtown Boston...