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Between Big Tex and the livestock beauty parades lies the heart of every fair: the midway. Texan or otherwise, breathes there a man with soul so dead that he did not once thrill to the gut-wrenching twists and turns of the Caterpillar and the Black Widow? Or pit his adolescent's rolled-steel stomach against the depredations of Corny Dogs and Bar-B-Q mystery meat burgers and loomfuls of pink cotton candy? Even those barbaric relics of carnival days, the sideshow freaks, are still present. Hear the saw-throated barker cry of the Headless Body Beautiful: "Yessir...
Cornell has several valuable drawing cards for promising jocks. There is the School of Agriculture, where the Canadian hockey players can feel at home, and Lynah Rink, a snake pit where the goal judges are not known for their impartiality. There are over fifty fraternities (more than any other Ivy school) for the jocks to play in. And there is the School of Hotel Administration, which brought Ed Marinaro to Cornell...
...period," complained Kennecott President Frank Milliken, whose firm has been a particularly good corporate citizen in Chile. Said Anaconda President John Place: "Allende's accounting theory is nothing more than a thin pretext for confiscation. He's now contrived to grab the world's biggest open-pit copper mine [Anaconda's Chuquicamata], plus a second major underground mine, and not pay a dime...
...agree on what they will talk about when they convene again in Washington on Saturday. The impasse deepened the danger that President Nixon's monetary initiatives will produce not the much needed overhaul of the world financial system that he aimed at, but a trade war that will pit the U.S. against much of the rest of the world...
...theater piece for singers, players and dancers"-he rose to an auspicious occasion and splendid circumstances: a new national opera house, an audience ready to assume that anything that works at all is a masterpiece. A cast of 23 skilled dancers, 40 musicians onstage, 40 more in the pit, two choruses, assorted soloists, the best in lights, costumes, alarums and excursions that money could buy. The result, in some ways, was both too much and not enough. Mass is a jumble of literal and symbolic meanings, a contrived happening with pretentious overtones, a non-play about a non-Mass...