Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...orchestra pit of any opera house is best heard from, not seen. That was not the case last week, as the Paris Opéra opened at New York's Metropolitan Opera House and Milan's La Scala moved into Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center. It was the first visit to the U.S. for both the storied companies, and in both pits there was unexpected drama on opening night...
...unpredictable tortures are everyday occurrences. In tiny Equatorial Guinea, which has suffered a reign of terror since gaining independence eight years ago, political prisoners have had their eyes gouged out by torturers of the notorious Macias Youth. Other prisoners have been forced to stand for days in a pit, up to their necks in mud and water...
Eight months ago, a guard had found Woods and some other men digging a big hole in a gravel pit that was owned by the suspect's father. The kidnap victims were held in the body of a trailer truck half-buried in the pit, and the guard remembered the previous incident and tipped the police about Woods. Police now believe that Woods not only bought the van in which the children and driver were held but that he also purchased the two Navy surplus panel trucks used to carry them to the site...
...Callahan's successor. In charge of the FBI'S Chicago office for the past three years, Held is highly regarded by associates. Perhaps most important to Kelley, Held has spent most of his 35 years as an agent in the field, far from the snake pit that was the FBI's Washington headquarters during the Hoover years...
...LOOKS as if the election year will be bland, but you couldn't have guessed that last fall. At that time, it seemed as if the 1976 presidential election might pit Nelson Rockefeller against Hubert Humphrey, a struggle that could only have been designed by the collaborating imaginations of R. Crumb and Karl Marx. "Big Capital squares off against Big Labor in a duel to the death! The executive committee of the bourgeoisie casts off the hypocritical veil of congressional government and campaigns in its own name, while the section of the labor movement which has reached only trade union...