Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Twenty-five to thirty thousand people are expected to attend an extravaganza in the Stadium on the final night of the celebration, which may be orchestrated by Tommy Walker, who designed the opening and closing ceremonies at the recent Los Angeles Olympics, according to Stephenson...
Last month's restraining order prevented planners for the ninth annual Cambridge River Festival which was canceted on May 18 due to bad weather, froth scheduling a raindate. The garden store proprietor has reportedly offered to reimburse River Festival organizers for the several thousand dollars lost because of the cancellations...
...neither money nor technical difficulty would necessarily discourage an erratic regime such as Libya's from pouring large amounts into building a small nuclear device. Taylor says that if such a regime could get its hands on enough plutonium, it would require only a few thousand dollars to build a device with a yield of ten kilotons, three kilotons less than that of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima, that could fit into a medium-size car. "I'd give them a pretty good chance, say, one in three, of building one that would work the first time," he says...
Clint Eastwood strode down the steps of the Palais des Festivals, and the townsfolk swooned as if a god had descended to earth. Another Hollywood deity ambled onto the Palais stage, heard himself introduced as "Mon General James Stewart" and watched a couple of thousand people in evening clothes stand up to cheer and salute. Earlier, gallant as always, Stewart had served as foil for June Allyson's sparkle at a press conference celebrating the screening of their 1954 film The Glenn Miller Story. Cher, the star of Mask, impressed everyone by winning a prize for best actress and, earlier...
There were plenty of movies in Cannes -- a thousand or so, from dozens of countries, on big theater screens and hotel-room cassettes -- as part of the 38th International Film Festival. But this was truly, as the trade paper Variety headlined it, "The Year of the Yank." A battalion of them landed at this Riviera beach resort, and before you could say "cultural imperialism" had convinced the assembled film world that they owned...