Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over Bethlehem 2,000 years ago from Christmas to Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), when the Magi finally reached Bethlehem. In the east, the radiant star the Magi followed hovers over the stable of an inn, part of a panoramic view of the biblical country side that circles the auditorium...
...time." The big steel dumbbell is a German-made Zeiss planetarium projector, 12 ft. high weighing 5,500 lbs., with 27,000 parts. Images are beamed up from the two large spheres at either end of the projector. Its control booth, situated at the edge of the auditorium, looks like the cockpit of a spaceship. A three-panel console has 150 buttons and 70 knobs. To bring out a star, the operator pushes two black buttons simultaneously and turns a rheostat marked STAR...
Such speculation is innocently brushed aside: "I believe Jesus was found under a star," a little girl says as the crowd trudges out of the auditorium and into the grimy streets. "I think all stars belong...
...object of the hearings held last week in Washington's ornate Departmental Auditorium was a well-intentioned, but possibly disruptive plan by the Internal Revenue Service to promote integration in the nation's 20,000 private elementary and secondary schools. Such schools qualify for exemptions from federal taxes as nonprofit institutions. But since 1970, federal courts have canceled the exemptions of more than 100 schools, many of them Southern "white flight" academies. Last August the IRS proposed a new racial test of its own for those schools that have grown rapidly or been created following desegregation. The service...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--Straight from the sonnets of Sir Philip Sidney, the courtly lover came to life here at Meehan Auditorium Saturday night, and he bore a strong resemblance to the Harvard hockey team...