Word: spartanism
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Cambridge's own Augean Stables (formerly called the University Theatre, and now the Harvard Square Theatre -- or HST for most, and non-U T for a few) have, at length, been thoroughly cleansed: what was once dirty, gilt, down-at-the-heels and 90c a shot is now sparkling, Spartan, chic...
...Requiem set last week-in the locker-room area under the grandstands at Randalls Island stadium-Gleason was finding out that moviemaking on location can be spartan. Against freezing temperatures, heat came from charcoal briquettes in braziers. Cast and crew were breathing contrails. Gleason sat, like a huge frostbitten gourd, in a camp chair labeled THE GREAT...
...neat office in Embracing Kindness Hall-a two-story Manchu dynasty palace in Peking's Forbidden City-have poured the blueprints and directives that marshaled China's millions into antlike armies to dig canals, mine coal and iron ore, and work the soil of 24,000 spartan people's communes. It has been clear for some time that the Great Leap was really a leap into disaster, but the extent of the failure is only now becoming plain. By fanatically stressing industry, Peking nearly wrecked China's agriculture-without accomplishing its industrial goals, either. At present...
...airlines. By servicing its jets at night, Continental keeps them flying 10½ hours a day (v. an industry average of 6½), yet has never had a passenger fatality. At the line's headquarters in a hangar at Denver's Stapleton Field, executive offices range from Spartan to shabby. Says Executive Vice President Harding Lawrence, 41: "We don't go for frills on the ground. We don't have an assistant to anybody...
Underfed Boy. At a rock-hard 187 Ibs., Saimes looks like an underfed boy alongside such hulking Big Ten fullbacks as his own Spartan rival, Ron Hatcher (220 Ibs.), and Ohio State's Bob Ferguson (225 lbs.). Coach Duffy Daugherty insists that Saimes is the finest fullback he has ever coached at Michigan State. "I've said it before, and I'll say it again," says Daugherty. "George Saimes could play any position on this team-including quarterback and tackle-and I know he would if I asked...