Word: pit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles, Jerry Proctor, a 17-year-old from Pasadena, broad-jumped 25 ft. 101 in., and U.S.C.'s Bob Seagren polevaulted 17 ft. 2 in.-1 in. above his own world indoor mark-only to have the leap nullified because his pole fell into the landing pit. > Drin: the 1¼-mile Strub Stakes, first $100,000-added horse race of the year (total value: $129,800), charging from ninth in a field of twelve to score by a length, at California's Santa Anita Park. The prerace favorite (at 3-5) was Ogden Phipps's four...
...Manhattan's modestly housed Commodity Exchange, some 60 brokers pressed around the mahogany rail circling a sunken trading pit as a bell rang promptly at 9:50 a.m. "March," intoned the exchange's trading superintendent, Patrick J. White, from his elevated perch at the edge of the ring. "Ninety," shouted Herbert Coyne of the commodity firm of Rayner & Stonington Inc. "Sold," cried Robert Marcus of Imperial Commodities Corp. A beige-jacketed clerk chalked the figure on a blackboard...
...Group) has either miscast or misdirected some of his principals. Mason and Signoret, however, are pathetically impressive as a couple of mice wandering in a maze designed for rats. And as a whole, the film convincingly elucidates in a modern instance why Dante consigned traitors to the very pit of hell. Le Carre similarly perceives treason as a spiritual attitude underlying the political act. His traitors are liars who live out their lie. His meaning of treason is the loss of self...
...Trombonist Betty Glover, 43, adds class to the brass of the Cincinnati Symphony; Helen Taylor, 24, plays a mean English horn for the Houston Symphony. The rare bird in the Los Angeles aviary is Barbara Winters, 28, who, to produce the needed penetrating sounds from her oboe, must pit her trim 120 lbs. against male fellow oboists who average a burly-chested 200 Ibs. To maintain the exceptional breath control necessary to control her contrary instrument, Winters swims and works out daily at a gym. "It leaves me almost no time for social life," she says. "I'd hate...
...accommodate the extravaganza in the cramped former movie theater that the Boston Opera calls home, Set Designer Oliver Smith built ramps and platforms around the orchestra pit. To swell the chorus, 40 extras were enlisted from local gyms and off the street (qualifications: "6 ft. 2 in. and well built"). Everything worked, especially Caldwell's master stroke of costuming Moses and Aron identically, often pivoting them back to back to underscore the central conflict between the spiritual and material sides of man. A few patrons found the orgy scenes too shocking and tromped out; but Lewis and Gramm performed...