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...climb. Why not? They planned to get back before dark. The Rev. Thomas Goman, one of their leaders, had 18 similar climbs under his belt. They carried enough food and water for a day, a gas stove, one sleeping bag. No tent. Five students who became sickly or sore in the first hours turned back. The rest climbed...
After the winter, the circus bestirred itself like an animal and hit the road. There were kinks to be worked out, sore joints and what have you, but nothing that could not be attended to on the circuit. The outfit made a pretty sight crossing the Red River on the highway from Hugo, Okla., where it holes up between November and March, to Paris, Texas, where the show would open the 1986 season. They numbered among them 80 brightly painted vehicles, 250 colorful people, a hippo, a rhino, a giraffe, assorted lions, tigers, llamas, horses, donkeys, zebras, elephants and goats...
After the Crimson fell behind in the first inning, 1-0, starter Jim Chenevey left the game with a sore shoulder. Ed Toland came on in relief and proceeded to allow just two hits over three shutout innings...
...hope that it will also serve as a powerful publicity tool, persuading businesses to open offices in downtown Vancouver and inspiring families to travel through the province on their next vacation. Says Carpenter Jim Hawkes: "Expo 86 is going to put us on the map." The region is in sore need of an economic boost: since the early 1980s, its two leading industries, lumber and mining, have been in a deep recession...
...sore spot as well. The oil-patch states of Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana have been so severely affected that their troubles could spoil the rest of the country's party, at least in the short run. Bankruptcies and layoffs plague the oil business and nearly every industry connected with it. Though the Labor Department announced last week that U.S. unemployment dipped to 7.2% in March, down a notch from 7.3% in February, the jobless rate has stayed unexpectedly high at least partly because of the oil- patch slump. Unemployment in Louisiana has reached...