Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Castle was entirely remodeled, and was followed in rapid order by Ford and Sydeman, classroom buildings; Ullman amphitheatre, with its indoor auditorium built on the stage designed for outdoor use; neat blocks of dormitories; A Student Union; the Shapiro athletic center; the already famed Three Chapels. Now under construction are the Slosberg Music and Art Center, and a $2,500,000 science building, made possible by a grant from the Hayden Foundation...
...glowered across the bench at the four men lined up in his Birmingham courtroom last week. The four were up on misdemeanor charges only eight days after participating in the attack on Negro Singer Nat "King" Cole as he entertained an all-white audience in the Municipal Auditorium (TIME, April 23). As a warning against similar incidents in Birmingham, Judge Parker imposed on each the maximum six-month jail sentence and $100 fine. Two other white-supremacy fanatics who led the charge against Cole waived preliminary hearings on more serious intent-to-murder charges, must appear before a grand jury...
...Berliners are calling "The Spiked Helmet of God." ¶ On the nearby site of the former Reichstag, Berliners will also have a new Congress Hall, mainly financed by U.S. government funds. Designed by Cambridge (Mass.) Architect Hugh Stubbins, it will have seven conference halls, theater and 1,200-capacity auditorium. Outstanding feature: a flaring sunbonnet roof moored by long steel cables...
...floors for unloading at display booths. The building has daylight lighting, complete air conditioning in all its display space, built-in floor connections for telephones, water, gas, electricity, radio and TV, and seating space for 10,000 people if exhibitors want to turn the second floor into an auditorium...
...Birmingham police found out that the attack on Cole had been planned four days before in a filling station in Anniston, 60 miles from Birmingham. According to the plan, a mob of 150, led by an officer of the North Alabama Citizens' Council, was to have stormed the auditorium and kidnaped Cole. Only the six showed up. So serious was the police view of the affair that two were charged with assault with intent to commit murder, the four others on lesser counts of conspiracy...