Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denver had seen nothing like it since the '30s when basketball buffs kept the cramped old city auditorium bursting at the seams and the fire department turned out regularly to turn away late arrivals. Even Colorado's Governor Steve McNichols showed up last week to watch the Denver Chicago Truckers take on the Phillips 66ers, the pride of Bartlesville, Okla. and perennial champions of the nine-year-old National Industrial Basketball League. Along with 6,500 shouting constituents, the governor got all the excitement he bargained...
Into Boston's Gardner Auditorium last week marched an oddly assorted procession of scientists, politicians and dogs. The occasion: a legislative committee hearing on a bill to make stray animals, unclaimed after 20 days in the pound, available to medical-research laboratories. For Massachusetts, though boasting in the Boston area one of the nation's most productive medical-research centers, is bound by a law which requires that stray animals be gassed. As a result, medical researchers are forced to buy animals which may be stolen pets, or to import them from other states, at considerable cost...
...smaller apartment towers housing 1,250 families. In addition, the Pru will probably help finance a 1,000-room hotel on the site, which will be one of Boston's biggest, and the city itself will spend up to $7,500,000 for a circular, 6,000-seat auditorium and convention hall. Finally, as a bow to modern, motorized living, the new Center will have underground parking for 5,000 cars, and since the buildings will take up only 30% of the site, the entire project will be landscaped with tree-shaded plazas and malls, reflecting pools, fountains...
Eight hundred medical school students from Harvard, B.U., and Tufts flooded into the State House's Gardner Auditorium yesterday for the public hearing on the much-publicized "pound" (animal-experment) bill...
...auditorium, with a purported capacity of 900 was filled to overflowing by students an hour before the proceedings actually began at 10:45 a.m. Capitol police were only able to reserve a few scattered seats for those in opposition to the bill...