Word: pub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...athlete, exactly," says Austrian Toni Innauer, 5 ft. 8 in., 130 lbs. "I am tough." At 17 he is tough enough to rate as the favorite in the 70-meter jumping competition. Raised in his father's pub halfway up an alp, Toni's budding alpine career was nipped at age twelve by officials who considered him too puny. He enrolled at a state-run skiing school, becoming a protégé of Jumping Coach Baldur Preiml...
...both incarnations, he occasionally indulges a well-cultivated taste for Dubonnet, Scotch, brandy, port or stout. Even Moynihan's critics concede that his unfailing Irish wit and cheer make him a good man to take on a pub crawl...
...were carried out, the caller said, in retaliation for the assassination the previous night of five Catholics, apparently by Protestant extremists. In what constitutes sad testimony to the endless cycle of terror and reprisal in Ulster, those murders were, in turn, thought to be in retaliation for three recent pub bombings by the Provisional I.R.A. that killed three and injured 57. In all, 20 people have died in sectarian violence in Northern Ireland since New Year's Eve. The bloodshed added gruesome weight to recent warnings by political leaders that 1976 would see an increase in violence...
...effect is electrifying. Similarly, a tin-whistle solo by Potts or a melancholy lament on the pipes by Moloney can create the tenderest of moments. Up on stage, the Chieftains look less like a band than a group of old friends taking some Saturday-night relaxation in a Dublin pub, which indeed they used to do in their early years. They wander out haphazardly in sweaters, odd jackets and tweed pants, sit in a big semicircle, tap their feet and boast to the audience that Irish music is "the best in the world...
Celebration. A musical by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, authors of "The Fantasticks." Performed by the Huby's Pub Theater in an intimate cabaret-type setting, at the Ramada Inn, 1234 Soldier's Field Road, though December 2. Performances Saturday and Tuesday at 8:30 p.m., Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Tickets...