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RINK RUMBLINGS.... The hockey team was so taken with the way the NCAA handled the "Star-Spangled Banner" at Syracuse that it will use the same technique next winter. All the lights are turned off, the spotlights shine on the two flags, and a special device provides wind to make the flags flap.... Watson Rink goal judges will wear Harvard blazers during next year's Cornell game, but they will not share lodging with Harvard hockey players during the school year...
...movement and dialogue must be perfect; the hectic action must have a constant momentum which increasingly bombards the audience without exhausting it; and most of all, the production has got to be funny. Ionesco is a hilarious playwright, but his brand of humor requires virtuoso directing and acting to shine at all. The current Quincy House production of Rhinoceros succeeds admirably in solving these problems...
...horses were known to suffer was poor teeth -too many sugar cubes from admiring children-and most reached the age of 20 before going to the slaughterhouse. But of late, said Löwenbräu's Heinz Moelter, "their fur lost its gloss, their eyes their shine, and their pulling power declined." Recently, Munich's local Animal Protection Society confirmed what the brewery had suspected. "They informed us that permitting the animals to continue working in Munich's poisonous atmosphere amounted to sheer cruelty," said Moelter. "Significantly, they didn't mention what...
...buoyed by unreasonably high hopes. Few captured the heady mood more eloquently than Julius Nyerere, who marked Tanganyika's independence in 1961 by sending an expedition to plant a flag and a torch atop Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak. "It will shine beyond our borders," said Nyerere, "giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate, and dignity where before there was only humiliation...
...burning lumps of soft coal that are washed from an exposed vein in the cliffs on the other side of the inlet and carried by the waves to the beach by the cabin. Their dinner table is a huge telephone cable spool, sanded, stained and polished to a rich shine; a bunch of dried wildflowers and some fresh ginger hangs from a rafter; neatly assembled shelves and counters of scrap wood line the kitchen walls...