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...just the Derby which requires a host of good hotels, restaurants, spots to satisfy the demand; a year-round influx of some of the world's wealthiest people creates a fascinating dual economy and culture in the oldest state west of the Appalachians. Mercedes sedans park next to beat-up Chevy trucks; private helicopters swoop down on quiet farmland; expensive restaurants spring up next to Billy's Bar; and Joe Bob the trainer, a plug of Red Man in his cheek and a splash of mud on his boots, rubs elbows with Texas wildcatters and Arabian princes...
Though tanning parlors do their biggest business from January to May, catching indoor rays is becoming a year-round pastime. Some palefaces like to establish a base tan before going on vacation; others simply prefer the tanning parlor to a trek to the beach. "I used to call in to work sick so that I could lie out in the sun," says Lola Lanza, 41, of Houston. "Now I can just come here on my lunch hour." Jeannie Frazier, 25, who spends $60 a month to cultivate her tan, maintains that a salon is "better than...
Back in 1979, Temple's high school Wildcats clinched the state football title under Bob McQueen, the coach and town hero. The people of Temple do a lot of hunting in season, shooting doves with shotguns and deer with rifles. But for year-round entertainment, nothing in town beats professional wrestling...
Thanks to the proliferation of summer festivals, opera, like football, is practically a year-round proposition these days. Even so, the fall openings of major international companies like New York City's Metropolitan Opera still have a glamorous cachet, and provide the occasion to muster a spectacular vocal show. Last week the Met did just that with a starry production of Wagner's Lohengrin...
...tournament's executive committee, which meets year-round, has stepped up actives recently, members said yesterday, and Harvard's name has certainly been mentioned...