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Restic, fresh from a sojourn in the wide-open Canadian Football League and blessed (as one writer reported at the time) with "the most brilliant football mind in North America," was billed as the gridiron messiah to lead Harvard out of the intercollegiate wilderness...
Unlike Europe, where motorists can move between capitals-and cultures-with a few hours' drive, the wide-open spaces of the U.S. can take considerable time and money to cross. By far the cheapest way to do it is a special $99 bus pass available only to foreigners, entitling the holder to unlimited travel for 21 days. Taking advantage of that bargain, Keith Wright, 30, a British tooland diemaker, and his wife Denise, 25, managed to stay within their blue-collar budget yet travel 8,000 miles around the U.S. Since food, gasoline and other staples of everyday life...
Portman plans a 54-story extravaganza including a 1,050-seat theater located below ground level; twelve floors of shops, meeting rooms and restaurants; and above it all, a 37-story-high, wide-open "atrium" around which 2,020 rooms will be arrayed. Through the cavernous atrium, twelve spaceship-like glass elevators will zoom to a bronzed-glass rooftop penthouse containing a cocktail lounge and a revolving restaurant...
...prays for her family, her home. Unable to remember individuals, she prays for images of young sweetness and fraility. Home. She prays for a wide-open red space filling with air and heat and dirt. Home. She prays for an ever-burning yet sweet peace. To breathe, she has to open her eyes, and then the broken body on the cross heals itself and walks gloriously into...
...contest has attracted both praise and criticism. Elliott said yesterday she liked the "wide-open approach" while Perla Hewes, Radcliffe tennis and squash instructor and a semi-finalist, said she believed "The Miss America Pageant" would be a more appropriate title. Hewes described the contest as a publicity stunt...