Word: extravaganza
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...business, Whitey Herzog, general manager and manager of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Bob Kennedy, general manager of the Chicago Cubs, sat down at a table in the lobby of a Dallas hotel and, while hundreds looked on, made their deal. Baseball's 79th winter meeting-an annual extravaganza that is part Oldtimers' Day, part industry trade fair and part human flesh market-was under...
Last March, the B.U. ruggers won a Mardi Gras tournament in New Orleans. Boston media played the event up, including a Globe feature on the team and a promotion at an area department store where the Terriers modeled sportswear and signed autographs. Since that extravaganza, Harvard has wanted to put B.U. in its place...
...Princeton-Dartmouth (in New Jersey) encounters would then have great significance to determine if either the Bruins or the Big Green will grab a share of the title. Brown concludes its season with what should provea routine game with the Lions in New York. And, of course, that extravaganza known only as The Game always possesses an aura all its own; the victor will achieve a moral triumph...
Tonight's fireworks extravaganza--produced by the Grucci fireworks company, which won last year's international fireworks contest in Monte Carlo--will begin at about 8:30 p.m. If it rains, organizers said, the fireworks will be postponed to the following evening...
Sunday--1 p.m.--The grand parade, a three-hour extravaganza of music, floats and marching units--not to mention politicians--will step off from Lechmere Square. The prade will wind up Cambridge St., take a left on Prospect St., and then a right on Mass Ave. The units will follow Mass Ave until they veer off on Mt. Auburn St. towards Winthrop Square and the edge of the river. The dignitaries in the lineup--including Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr.--will march in the first wave...