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...whip up. Local citizens were dubious, and some are now peeved. But what was not long ago a desolate downtown patch of rail sidings and weeds is now a nearly complete 77-acre complex of gleaming pavilions, an aerial tramway, a fabric-covered amphitheater and a quarter-mile-long pit that will soon be World's Fair Lake. The fair's signature structure: the Sunsphere, a steel shaft housing two restaurants, which with its gilded-globe top looks like the world's only 266-ft. microphone. Says Fair President S.H. ("Bo") Roberts: "This is going...
Talk with any member of the Pirates company, and what you are likely to hear is a succession of admiring stories about other members of the cast. Basic Pirates lore, told from different viewpoints, is an account of the night on Broadway when the pit band came in drunk from a Christmas party and couldn't toot together or on key. Ronstadt, making her first entrance, a point at which she must sing Poor Wandering One in a way that tells everyone who's boss, heard their clamor and got the giggles. She couldn't stop...
...leased to drillers. The work is deafening, unclean and, of course, extremely profitable. Oilworkers seem weirdly surly and uncommunicative for this part of the country, like punk rockers, Ahab's harpooners, aliens. The chemical "slush" from the hole in the ground gushes up into a loathesome open pit lined with a sort of Hefty...
...pit orchestra broke into a feisty rendition of "Yankee Doodle Dandy," and the audience, dressed in formal attire, set down their champagne glasses to clap in accompaniment. The colorful constant was raised, and James Cagney, learning lightly on a came, smiled and thanked the crowed for his routing welcome...
Harvard, the most improved team in the Ivies (it had a 7-12 mark last year), holds the second seed, and the other first-round bye. The first-round matchups, set for Friday, pit third-seeded Cornell versus Brown, and Dartmouth against Yale. The Crimson will play a semifinal contest at 12:30 pm. at Thompson Arena Saturday, and a Sunday 3 p.m. final (or 11:30 a.m. consolation game...