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Scandal breaks as police discover Ronald Reagan loitering in the men's room of an Oakland, YMCA. Young Patrick Nugent dies of St. Vitus's Dance. Dunster House ushers in the new theatre season with its universally acclaimed production of Edward Albee's Tiny Alice...
...case, half the team could come down with St. Vitus' Dance and the Crimson would still be favored over Dartmouth. But in the next year few weeks, the squad will be meeting far stiffer competition. The GBC meet includes not only Hemery (second in the NCAA high hurdles indoors and second to Tom Farrell in the indoor BAA 600), but also Boston College's 200-foot hammer thrower, John Flore and Northeastern distance runner Dave Dunsky...
...drydock, spent $278,000 on repairs to her keel, promenade deck and railings, replaced a propeller and some machinery. The Coast Guard examined her in drydock, three weeks later held a dockside fire and lifeboat drill. About all that could be said for the ship was said by Captain Vitus G. Niebergall, Coast Guard safety inspector: "International convention allows one half-hour to get lifeboats into the water. This boat got its lifeboats into the water in eight minutes." When she caught fire, by contrast, half of the Castle's 14 lifeboats and most of her life rafts never...
...Philharmonic began to recapture the audience that it had not had since its "Golden Era" under Toscanini in the '30s. As the only American-born conductor of a major U.S. orchestra, Bernstein brought the Philharmonic new esprit and quieted its cranky audience. But soon his St. Vitus conducting technique upset even his fans; to many of them, he seems to be much better at conducting the audience than the orchestra...
...told something of a story, a bit of a romance, with all the humor and the farce of a flirtation. The choreography really took off, exploiting the imagination and freedom of Cunningham's style: kicking splits swooping from the air to the floor, some acrobatics, and a St. Vitus Dance frenzy. In a spirit of whimsy and joy, the dancers switched from the deadpan love-making of Aeon to an enthusiastic dance that came very close to pantomime. Like pantomime, it told a story, and told it clearly. Finally let in on what Cunningham and Cage were...