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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Inside Wrigley, though, there is a very distinctive flavor, most of it found among the thin row of bleacher seats that line the left and right field corners. Every ballpark seems to attract its characters in the "cheap seats." Suntan lotion, lots of cold beer and a very vocal commentary on the lighter side of baseball often characterize the bleacher crowd. And the fans at Wrigley are no exception...
Their constituents back home would have been astonished. Fifteen mayors sitting in a row with their eyes closed, pointing their index fingers toward an imaginary ball of light. They are responding to commands from a bearded therapist who soothingly urges them to "draw the healing spheres" to them. After playing a tape of Beethoven's Pastoral, the therapist leads his subjects into a mental pasture, where they are to find a cool stream and feel a pleasant breeze...
...trial were the crews of three major networks and some 22 television stations. Last week, when the prosecutor showed the jury photographs of bite marks on the buttocks and breast of a victim's corpse, a TV "pool" camera man and a still photographer in the first row of the press section took it all in -though they refrained from closeups, and some stations edited out the more grusome shots...
...standard Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches lists only 296 denominations. Lutheran Theologian Arthur C. Piepkorn tracked down 735 North American groups for his Profiles in Belief (Harper & Row is up to Volume IV of this posthumous seven-volume work). Now comes J. Gordon Melton's encyclopedia listing 1,187 "primary" denominations in the U.S., which makes him America's champion church hunter...
Harvard, until last year, did not allow outside groups to use the stadium. This year, Harvard will permit two groups--Haymarket Concerts and Summerthing, a Boston non-profit arts group--to use the stadium. This will be the second summer in a row Summerthing has used the stadium...