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...giant semi raced through the night, across America from California to Brooklyn. Inside was a precious cargo whose street value in New York would be double its West Coast price. Thousands of packs were unloaded at one distributor's warehouse, then channeled stealthily to selected candy and variety shops. Candy shops? Yes, the cargo was destined to feed the latest kid candy craze: Pop Rocks. Says the Brooklyn distributor: "The kids are like junkies-hungry for the stuff. It's the fastest-moving new candy I've ever seen...
...other doubles team for the Crimson, Leslie Miller and Meg Meyer, fought their way past the third seeds, 7-5, 6-4, before losing in the semi-finals to the team of Awad and Wendell...
...slate with semi-mighty B.C. scheduled for a 3 p.m. affair today at Soldiers Field. Brown won't be pitching, so some new heroes will have to be found. With the way the batsmen are playing, they shouldn't be too hard to come...
...reds of a New England autumn, and the courtiers looked as though they'd just stepped off a wedding cake, with popsicle-orange feathers bobbing on their bewigged heads. And the decor, especially in the second act, atoned for a flock of balletic bumbles. The ingenious use of layered, semi-transparent drop scrims melted the bright grove of the hunting party into a blue dream-world, then into the cobwebby forest of enchanted sleep...
...honor of its quincentennial, Oxford has mounted a traveling exhibit of some 250 artifacts and illustrious works from the five centuries. Aptly, since the semi-independent New York branch is Oxford's largest offspring, the exhibit is opening this week at New York's Pierpont Morgan Library, across from Oxford's American headquarters. There, from March 8 through May 7, visitors can gaze at Rood's Expositio, the first Oxford Bible (dated 1675) and A Map of Virginia, With a Description of the Countrey, the Commodities, People, Government and Religion, written by Captain John Smith...