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...earthquake leveled several square miles of downtown Managua, killing 10,000 people. Somoza is widely suspected of stealing some of the international aid that flowed into the country after the disaster. (Two years later, the wreckage has been cleared away but nothing in the destroyed center city has been rebuilt; the housing shortage has forced some of the parachustists to live in old railroad cars...
...that Szell had been right. Renamed Avery Fisher Hall in September 1973 in recognition of a gift of some $10 million from a pioneer manufacturer of hi-fi equipment, the structure will be closed for five months starting in May 1976. Its entire inner auditorium will be demolished and rebuilt. The cost is put, optimistically perhaps, at $3 million. In charge of the renovations will be Acoustician Cyril M. Harris of Columbia University. He was responsible for the excellent sound in the Metropolitan Opera, and tuned the various halls at Washington's Kennedy Center and, most spectacularly...
...called him "Telis," the diminutive of Aristotle), he was the prime mover of the jet set. He had residences in half a dozen cities, an Ionian island of his own and an elegant art collection. He boasted the world's most lavish yacht, the Christina, a 325-ft. rebuilt Canadian frigate complete with sumptuous bathrooms lined in Siena marble and fitted with gold-plated faucets. He also-as gossip-column readers well knew-enjoyed the company of beautiful and famous women. Fittingly, he had the ultimate jet-set consort: he startled the world by marrying Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...
After intermission, the Crimson immediately rebuilt the lead, mostly as a result of an 18-point contribution, this time from Silver. The Harvard advantage was never in jeopardy, and only a Dartmouth spurt in the closing seconds made the final margin so close...
...cost of reconstruction has been estimated as high as $780 million. Most of the city may have to be bulldozed over and completely rebuilt. Prime Minister Whitlam has pledged to do whatever is necessary to resurrect Darwin, and proud Australians seemed to agree that the cost would be worth it. In an editorial the Melbourne Age wrote that it is already anticipating the "time when the city named after the great student of nature's primeval forces [will] rise up again and contend with the wind...