Word: arena
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still willing to compare the event favorably to some bar mitzvahs and other affairs he's been playing lately. "It's exciting to see the VIPs," he said. Madison Square Garden President Michael Burke, however, the man best suited to compare this event to others at the arena, admitted that a Knicks game would have created a more enthusiastic crowd. Spotted Wednesday night in the highest bleachers, Burke said, "it's boring," while surveying the happiness downstairs...
Inside the Garden, delegates and others are somewhat less crammed together than subway straphangers in rush hour. The oval arena has considerably less floor space than, for example, the hall used at the Miami Beach Convention Center, and everyone is getting along with about one-quarter of the working area normally expected at a convention. The delegates are seated in close array in the center of the arena. Behind them in the first and second loges are the alternates; then, in steeply ascending galleries, politicians and guests. Long desks for the writing press flank the specially built 12-ft.-high...
...fanned out through ancient Greece to announce the forthcoming Games at Olympia (see BOOKS), they carried with them the proclamation of a sacred truce that extended for at least a month before and after the Olympics. Since the Games of the XXI Olympiad in Montreal have already become an arena of international acrimony second only to that other supposed citadel of world harmony, the United Nations, the time is ripe for a modern equivalent, however profane, of the sacred truce...
...Olympics are the exclusive turf-and track, pool and arena-of ABC. The Montreal Games will be ABC's sixth Olympics of the past eight. For the rights to beam the competition into the U.S. and to provide a "visual feed" to Latin America, ABC paid the Olympic organizing committee (COJO) $25 million. To produce a U.S.-oriented version of the Games-through its own staff and technical facilities-will cost ABC another $10 million. But don't fret for ABC's exchequer; at $72,000 a minute, sponsors-the three biggest are Sears, Schlitz and Chevrolet...
Calls out Billy Morgan. Another in the seemingly endless series of original bicentennial plays. At the Tufts Arena Theater, on Talbot Ave. in Medford. Performances July 13-17 at 8:15 p.m. Tickets $1-$4, with student discount...