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...Olympics have become the world's biggest stage-a billion people are expected to view the spectacle on television. As long as that is true, Olympic officials admit, the oil-and-water mixing of politics and sport will continue. With the 1972 Palestinian terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at Munich all too vividly in mind, there was little criticism of the armed-camp atmosphere at Olympic sites when the 7,200 athletes-and 3,000 functionaries-began arriving...
...permanent theatre will be equipped for three-quarters round as well as proscenium arch production which utilize the conventional rectangular stage-a unique innovation in design. The theatre will set 1800 people at prices which will be kept "as low as possible...
...made such exciting finds of pottery that this year he began to pay premium rates to 100 native diggers, set them to work two shifts a day hauling out debris in baskets made of old auto tires. In short order they had dug past the well's first stage-a broad shaft cut out of limestone 33 ft. deep, faced with a spiral staircase. Then the diggers excavated a narrower tunnel with steps cut in its side to reach a broad water-drawing room 82 ft. below the surface...
...development must be carried out in stages, and the first stage-a $250,000 survey of Yukon's lakes and rivers-is already under way, will be finished late this summer. The first $5,000,000 capital has been raised by sale of debentures, and Ventures expects to raise more as needed Next spring, the first 25,000-h.P. pilot power plant will be started...
...Really," sighed English Actress Eva Berkson, who currently owns & operates the theater, "I've almost come to the conclusion that the only way to frighten a French audience since the war is to cut up a woman on the stage-a live woman, of course-and throw them the pieces...