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...latest blow has been the extraordinary success of the Walt Disney World theme park and entertainment center at Orlando, 240 miles to the north. The 27,400-acre complex, which opened in 1971, sports three Disney hotels, with an occupancy rate of about 97%, three golf courses and assorted attractions that make it, according to its owners, the No. 1 tourist destination in the world. More than 13 million visitors came in 1976, and attendance in this year's fourth quarter is up 7.4% over a year ago. Moreover, the Disney complex, which grossed almost $255 million last year...
...moment has a powerful, almost mystical, emotional charge, and to raise the temperature still higher, Spielberg caps the scene by filling the sound track with an old and uncannily appropriate song from a Walt Disney movie. By then, Close Encounters is a celebration not only of children's dreams but also of the movies that help fuel those dreams. Of course, it is one of those movies. Spielberg has done what he set out to do: at the end of Close Encounters, the audience is sitting with him in the lap of the universe, ready and waiting for new magic...
...Walt Frazier's 22-point performance led the Cleveland Cavaliers to a 104-101 victory over the Boston Celtics last night at the Garden...
...about the 1960s that Capp did not like: he made the comic folk of Dogpatch share their panels with radical folk singer Joanie Phoanie and hairy thugs from S.W.I.N.E. (Students Wildly Indignant About Nearly Everything). Capp gradually alienated his college-age audience, which switched to more congenial strips like Walt Kelly's Pogo and Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury. Today fewer than 400 papers still carry Li'l Abner. For a while, Capp remained a perverse favorite on the campus lecture circuit. But he became something of a recluse after 1972, when a judge in Eau Claire...
Last year Dartmouth changed its nickname to the Woodsmen. Now that's just plain degrading. It's like your team is playing against the cast from a Walt Disney movie. Word has it the grid squad is putting decals of Paul Bunyan on the side of their helmets for Saturday's game...