Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high schools. The 57 academic high schools it has now are so loaded that last year Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High had 6,886 students, or 2,000 more than capacity. George Washington High has five overlapping daily sessions; students waiting for empty classrooms jam the auditorium like commuters in Grand Central. Last year 57,459 New York children got less than a full day's schooling, in effect cutting their school year by as much as two months...
Before it ended, an explosion thundered through the auditorium. A 30-ft. wall of flame shot over a section of box seats and rinkside folding chairs. In an instant, the rink was littered with enormous chunks of concrete, shredded programs, crumpled popcorn boxes, splintered seats, twisted steel-and dozens of limp or painfully writhing bodies that lay in puddles of blood spreading over the ice. It took a moment for the horror to register. Then the gay chorus line broke in a scramble of skate blades and screams. A woman in the audience shrieked to her companion...
Bleeding or dazed, some people wandered aimlessly out of the Coliseum. Some fled wildly across the ice, slipping and skidding as they tried to escape. Others clawed with their bare hands to drag away 500-lb. blocks of concrete that pinned people in the wreckage. The auditorium, brilliantly illuminated by spotlights, echoed with screams of the injured-some lying helplessly trapped beneath bodies of the dead. A man walked about asking everyone he saw, "Where's my kids? Where's my kids...
Adlai Stevenson paused patiently time and again while scattered hecklers hoo ed and booed during his United Nations Day speech in Dallas' Memorial Auditorium Theater last week. When one crude superpatriot interrupted to shout a question about Stevenson's beliefs, Adlai, unruffled, replied: "I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance...
When he left the auditorium, a jeering flock of pickets swarmed around him. Many lugged anti-U.N. and anti-Adlai signs. The crowd began to jostle Stevenson-and a woman clunked him on the side of his head with a card board sign that said "Down with the U.N." Startled, Stevenson called out to policemen who moved in to collar the female, "Wait a minute. I want to talk...