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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1978
Page
6
Hans Durst executive chef of the Hyatt Regency Chicago uses a chisel and an electric chain saw to carve a five foot high, 400 pound ice witch on a broom. He began ice carving in 1966 and has created over 1000 sculptures. The piece was to be shown in the hotel lobby today.
Review notes a sold out Hancher performance led by Earl Wrightsman as Captain von Trapp and Sallyann Howes as Maria. Christine Cookson as Liesl, Terry Sanders as Mother Abbess, and a unique strings-free pit deliver strong vocals and staging though lighting and organ absence drew critique. The piece closes with the 1974 Nixon health note.
Cedar Rapids city recreation director John Foens has been appointed to the American Park and Recreation Society Committee on Leisure Education. The group develops guidelines and curricula with colleges to help students entering parks and recreation fields.
Dr. Steven Cool of the University of Houston College of Optometry conducts experiments with kittens wearing goggles to study infant visual development. He seeks to understand how early vision affects intelligence, motor skills, and binocularity, noting that blocking one eye can cause long term blindness in that eye after goggles are removed.
A quirky OCR fragment discusses skeptical reading of schemes, a deanery's gravy with a roadside chuckhole, and a misaligned right turn where a sign dictates left. The line hints at local humor on traffic rules and misread signs.
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