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...original Bean store has been expanded considerably in the last three years to include a large room with canoes and kayaks hanging in racks and a pond with live Brook Trout--Salvelinus Fontinalis according to the sign...
There is another, older, better football fantasy. It requires that the big game take place on the shores of a pond small enough so that ordinary people may reasonably dream of becoming its frog king for a day. The altogether agreeable aim of The Best of Times and Wildcats is to reanimate this sweetest of sporting fables, in which losers are born again as winners at the last heroic moment...
...just an aspiring piglet in the chorus line and her colleague a former tadpole. But even though the amphibian has since made it big in TV and films like The Muppets Take Manhattan, as well as star turns in the toy department, he hasn't forgotten his lily-pond roots. Next month Muppet Creator Jim Henson and more than 200 of Kermit's friends are getting together to toast America's best-known frog on his 30th birthday. Called The Muppets, a Celebration of 30 Years, the one-hour CBS special will feature Fozzie Bear as master of ceremonies...
After clearing the Arrow DC-8 for takeoff at 6:45 a.m., the Gander tower operators heard nothing more from the crew. The four-engine jet began its roll, speeding past Deadman's Pond on its left, and its wheels left the runway at 6:49. It was airborne for less than one minute before veering to its right and dropping...
...high British unemployment rates, he would like to extend the scheme to every major city in the country. He has spoken of the responsibility that Big Business has to help the urban poor. "I just feel that sometimes, not too often, I can throw a rock into a pond and watch the ripples create a certain amount of discussion." Charles threw a rock through the plate-glass window of modern architecture last year when he decried the sterility of much contemporary British design. In a speech to the Royal Institute of British Architects, he castigated a proposed steel- and-glass...