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This year the cars have been very evenly matched, and Sunday's race should be as close as the previous two. Bryar is a scenic 1.3 mile course located between Concord and Loudon, New Hampshire. The track is on the right side of the road that runs between the two towns. There are a number of good vantage points, and most of the course can be seen from the bleachers opposite the start-finish line. Qualifications start at about 9 a.m. Sunday morning, and the race for small European cars starts at noon. At 2:30 p.m. the main event...
...federal district court blocked the New York road; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has just upheld that decision. Speaking for the court, Judge Leonard Moore stressed the new right of citizens' groups to defend "natural resources, scenic beauty and historical value" of areas threatened with drastic alteration. Such groups, he added, can prove their sincerity by taking on "the burdensome and costly processes of intervention...
...vaudeville was once king, burlesque was the nation's raffish, rococo old queen. Sixty years ago this week, Baltimore's New Monumental Theater featured "Divorceland: A fantasy of song and jest, with sumptuous scenic environment and an ensemble of beauteous femininity, prodigally clad in costly raiment." Throughout the '20s and '30s, pratfalls and epidermis at Minsky's warmed the Broadway night. From Boston's elegant Old Howard Theater to the vulgar palaces of Midwestern river towns, innocently dirty old men of all ages whistled and stamped at the sultry writhings of Gypsy Rose...
...last time. Latest victim of rising costs, declining patronage and the reluctance of railroads to promote passenger service, the train was, as one member of the Interstate Commerce Commission termed it, "a unique national asset." Rolling for 2,525 miles through some of the U.S.'s most scenic and historic terrain, the Cal Zephyr afforded a view of America which new generations, hurtling along billboarded freeways or locked inside pressurized plane cabins, may never see. With that in mind, Associate Editor Ray Kennedy and Correspondent Mark Sullivan recently rode the Cal Zephyr for one last look. Their report...
...lines of the Peace Corps." It would be called ECO (an acronym for Environmental Control Organization), he said, and could start by conducting an exhaustive inventory of all publicly owned lands and making "recommendations for their highest use -whether it be recreational, or resource-producing, or just plain scenic...