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...closed-circuit TV sites was a bit too realistic. In the Chicago Coliseum, a riot broke out when the TV transmission broke down. Across town at the International Amphitheater, police had to turn firehoses on an angry mob of 1,000 trying to storm their way into the sold-out house. In Pittsburgh, 5,500 hardy souls braved subfreezing temperatures and icy 30-m.p.h. winds to see the fight outdoors at the Three Rivers Stadium. The fight fever knew no boundaries. In Manila, classes were suspended so that schoolchildren could watch along with their teachers. In Rome and London, scores...
Cornell, the opponent in another sold-out engagement tonight, lost to Brown last week, 6-3. But Ken Dryden, the 6-5 Ithacan goaler, will be harder to beat than McGinnis. And more significantly, there wasn't a Bruin defenseman half as good as the Big Red's Skip Stanowski and Bruce Pattison...
...Viennese pastry tray of charm. A few years ago, all three of his heldentenors suddenly came down with colds at the same time. Rather than cancel a sold-out performance of Tristan and Isolde, he cajoled each tenor into singing one act apiece. When Bing decides that an aging singer should retire, he eases the pain with a line he has polished to perfection: "Wouldn't you rather have your public say, 'Already?' than 'At last!' " Of course, if the singer won't take the hint, Bing will fire him without batting...
...Coop add to the delay after books arrived from the publisher? Only slightly, Coop officials argue -- their triplicate filing system sometimes slowed down transfer of books from packages to shelves, but was efficient in the long run. And, if students didn't complain about a sold-out book, then the clerks didn't always notice it immediately, delaying its re-order. But the clerks, Coop officials insist, were and are as good as the staff of any Boston department store; what may have looked like "chaos" in the annex was the necessary moving of books...
...Sold-Out Country? At week's end the conferees were reported in full accord on 1) a new fisheries treaty that will redraw the old Rhee line, 2) a trade agreement under which Japan will postpone repayment of South Korea's $45 million trade debt and increase imports of Korean raw materials, 3) a redefinition of the rights of the half-million Koreans living in Japan, and 4) reparations, which will probably come to $300 million in grants and $200 million in long-term credits...