Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that have come over Florida's face. "It's real crazy," a Florida State coed said one day last week in Tallahassee. "Things are happening. I keep asking people about it and they don't know how to explain it, but they go home for a weekend and find a new factory where there used to be an empty lot, or maybe 200 houses where there was a golf course. The whole state's jumping...
Pinocchio will amuse weekend audiences even if the HDC's front-row claque doesn't attend...
Although the Friars had been considered a slight favorite for their two weekend matches against the Tigers, they dropped both games, 7 to 4 and 5 to 2. But the varsity, still showing the effects of inexperience with its team completely reorganized from last year, should find the Friars an opponent at least equal to the B.U. sextet which upset the Crimson in sudden-death overtime last week...
...Seville. It was the privilege of the prosperous Venezuelan city of Maracay (pop. 64,535) last week to witness the return to the ring of Luis Miguel Dominguin, 30, most artful living bullfighter, who retired in 1953 after eleven active years. The privilege cost Maracay $50,000 for two weekend corridas. That was the highest pay ever given to a bullfighter, but the promoter knew what he was doing; it was a near sellout at $10 to $50 a seat...
...spirited and brisk, without being obtrusive. The finale of Act I was a superb rendition of a very difficult scene, which combined dramatic excitement with important plot lines. The Yeomen, led by Robert Cort-right and William Nethercut, should be mentioned for their fine singing. The crowded theatre weekend should not keep lovers of good Gilbert and Sullivan from a brilliant performance...