Word: astrodomo
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Folks go first class in Texas, and first of all is that bubble-topped monument to indoor baseball and plastic grass, the Houston Astrodome. "We're geared for anything," boasts the arena's major astrodomo, Judge Roy Hofheinz, 55. Not quite, though. The Astrodome lacks a basketball floor, and this might have been an embarrassment when unbeaten, second-ranked Houston University wanted to use the Dome for its game against unbeaten, top-ranked U.C.L.A. No sweat for the judge. He reached clear over to Los Angeles to borrow a portable floor, spent $10,000 trucking it to Texas...
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