Word: pit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mitterrand, 56, has been in and out of eleven Cabinet posts and has lost one parliamentary election since his entry into the bear pit of French politics in 1946. Yet in the presidential election of 1965 he amassed an extraordinary 45% of the popular vote, against none other than Charles de Gaulle. If last week's newspaper polls prove right, he could well become France's Premier in 1973. This feat, if Mitterrand brings it off, will bear witness to his tenacity, shrewdness and gift for political compromise. Mitterrand has had to painstakingly rebuild the flagging Socialist Party...
Last week in Germany such a work appeared. The orchestra pit of the Hamburg State Opera was empty, and up on the stage strode the weirdest bunch of non-human heavies since Wagner peopled his Ring cycle with gnomes, mermaids, dragons and bears. Five 21-ft. chrome-and-steel towers reeled in patterns that owed less to choreography than to the movement of armored tank columns. They were directed from backstage by electronic remote control, and were adorned with mirrors (20 to a tower) that caught the sunburst of spots, strobes and color projectors that beamed down upon them...
...daughter, Nellie, who is blind: the book is dedicated to her. It is the youngest son--Reuben--who tells the story. The fantasy - allegory comes early, when it is explained to the family, newly arrived in town, that there is an underground city beneath Des Moines, a fogshrouded pit of unspeakable horror into which people, when they have been driven to the edge, enter and never return...
...Canada. Before long, the station, which also broadcasts the Boston Bruins' games, had some grievances of its own: McCarthy dismissed Bruin President Weston Adams Jr. as "the biggest jerk I ever met," while Andelman described Boston Garden, the Bruins' home rink, as "a pig pen, a garbage pit. Even Vincent Price wouldn't shoot a horror movie there." When WBZ, reportedly under pressure from the Bruins, dropped the show in May 1971, 2,000 Sports Huddle loyalists staged a demonstration in the station's parking...
...Treaumblay. 35. Bob Cleary. 36. Rusty Ingersoll. Dartmouth. 37. Hull. Balfour. Hay. 38. Boston got Phil Esposito. Ken Hodge and Fred Stanfield for Pit Martin and Jim Pappin. 39. 8.9. John Carlos, wind-aided. 40. Lee Evans. Vince Matthews. Larry Jones. Ron Freeman...