Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...towering entrance to the palace, this time by units of a Latvian rifle brigade famed for its loyalty to Bolshevism and brought to Petrograd by Lenin because "the Russian peasant may vacillate if something happens-what's needed is proletarian firmness." At the entrance to the auditorium we passed under a third scrutiny. The footfalls of armed men and the clatter of weapons made the colonnaded hall sound like a barracks...
...seven air-conditioned office buildings (including one of 30 stories-far taller than anything now standing in Los Angeles-and three of 22 stories). Near them will spring up an 1 8-story, 1,000-room hotel, a six-story motion-picture arts center with adjoining 4,000-seat auditorium, a series of shops and department stores. Cutting a swath through the whole development will be a 175-ft.-wide concourse almost a mile long, with a centerway of statuary, fountains and subtropical plants...
...theatre will seat about 600 people, approximately one-half the capacity of Sanders. In addition to a single large auditorium, the new structure will contain several conference rooms and a small stage and auditorium for rehearsals and "Workshop" productions...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted a resolution in 1950, reading, "The Faculty of Arts and Sciences deplores the lack of an auditorium adequate to the needs of the Harvard student body and the University community and expresses the hope that action may be taken to remedy this lack in the near future...
...Latter-Day Roman. As SACEUR, Norstad is a great contrast to his tireless, hard-driving predecessor. "When General Gruenther wanted to know how many seats there were in an auditorium, everybody trembled; now we just tremble when there is something worth trembling about." The modesty that was one of Norstad's "faults" at West Point is still with him. When he was first elevated to SACEUR, he tried to continue his old practice of slipping into SHAPE unobtrusively by a side door, abandoned it only after his public information officer firmly told him that he must use the front...