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...grew rich as the Midwest's hog butcher, and has fattened as "the convention capital of the U.S." As a centrally located air, rail, and highway hub, it is perhaps the most convenient of U.S. cities. It has fleshpots and fun spots. For expositions it has the Navy Pier, Soldier Field, the International Amphitheater, and Chicago Stadium. In 1960, Chicago outdid itself by building McCormick Place, an edifice alongside Lake Michigan that ran the size of six football fields, with 486,000 square feet of space on three levels. It soon became the site...
...tungsten mining. Caltex, which recently signed a five-year $50 million contract to supply the Indonesian government with lubricating oils and grease, has set aside $10 million to open a new oil field in addition to its present 310,000 barrels-a-day operation; it will also construct additional pier facilities for tankers...
...wrote the famed castrato soprano Pier Francesco Tosi in his book Observations on the Florid Song, which was the basic handbook for opera singers during the 18th century. In those days singers freely ornamented composers' scores with their own improvised embellishments in a style known as bel canto (literally, "beautiful singing") To today's purists, who worshipfully preach note-for-note fidelity to the composer the style is strictly bellow canto. Nevertheless, performances in opera houses and on recordings are now being laced with so many variations on old arias that Tosi would sing...
...concerned would be good. So we took her into our act. Let's face it: it didn't hurt the act either. Of course, we weren't always in the same show." One summer at the resort of Blackpool, for instance, "we were on the pier, and she was in the big theater in town, really a step above...
Cookery Books. The poet, the pedants and the author of record have turned out a disappointing book. They do provide some useful information, such as the distinction between dock and pier (a boat floats in a dock, but is tied to a pier). Yet such pointers are overwhelmed by humorless pedagogy, prolixity, questionable advice, and an embarrassing number of sins against good usage and grammar...