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This week as the train plays Peoria-literally-its tour is mirroring the nation in quite a different way: it is in deep financial distress, fast building up a deficit that could reach $2.5 million. Apparently the trouble began early with lavish expenditures to renovate the train and assemble the exhibits. On the road there were further problems: complaints that the admission was too high ($2 for adults, $1 for children), the 15-minute moving-walkway trip through the cars too brief (the walkways have since been slowed). Attendance was erratic: only 10,800 visitors per day turned up during...
...town Southern jail has burgeoned into an expensive legal struggle and an emotional national controversy. Supporters of Joan Little, the 21-year-old black defendant, have raised nearly $300,000 through nationwide appeals; the state of North Carolina and its Wake County are spending some $100,000 to provide lavish trial security and to prosecute the case...
...doubt about where he is headed. Surveying Jackson's lavish Berkeley Hills condominium overlooking San Francisco, Washington says: "One day I'm going to have all this-and more...
...usually reticent standards, the Soviet Union was on a veritable ASTP binge. Moscow issued commemorative Apollo-Soyuz postage stamps, printed lavish brochures on the mission and even invited the American ambassador, Walter Stoessel, to watch the Soyuz blast-off from the once secret launch site near Baikonur, in central Asia; the Soviet ambassador to Wasinngton, Anatoly Dobrynin, will attend the Apollo launch at Cape Canaveral...
...lavish A.B.T. production is the first complete American version of this three-act ballet in nearly 30 years. In one sense, the neglect is hard to explain, since Raymonda is one of five surviving full-length works (including Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake) of the 60 or so ballets created by the great Marius Petipa principally for St. Petersburg's Maryinsky Theater. The choreography ranks with Petipa's most inventive, and the score by Alexander Glazunov is both limpid and melodious...