Word: coliseum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Suburbia piles into the latest hot ticket from Detroit Visitors to the annual auto show at New York City's Coliseum last week gazed with longing at expensive sports cars and custom-stretched limousines. But a real hit of the extravaganza was the new minivans that are now rushing onto American highways. At the Chrysler display, people bounced up and down in the driver's seat and clambered around the interior. Said Edward Thomas from Matawan, N.J., a prospective purchaser: "It's a very practical vehicle and more fashionable than a regular-size van." Car buyers around...
Yale took full advantage of its home-ice advantage to slow the icewomen and prevent them from playing their game. One a hot afternoon, the Coliseum was super-heated to almost 60 degrees in a move that sufficiently softened the ice. That forced Harvard's superior skaters to slow down and play the chipper game that their hosts prefer...
...made it stick after two trials against the league, the city has been trying to condemn the team-everyone condemns this team-and take over under the laws of eminent domain. Meanwhile the Raiders are in Los Angeles and starting to count over 90,000 patrons in the Coliseum, where Davis has not yet signed a long-term lease. For now, damages of some $35 million are owed the Raiders by the other 27 teams. Speaking for his players and himself, he says, "We don't take what the defense gives us, we take what we want...
...sadly replied, "That is a long, expensive way from here." Even the officials of the international Olympic committee were discouraging. "For your 1932 ambitions, it now does not look so certain," they told Garland two years before the flags were to be set fluttering at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Coupled with the sour economic situation was a darkening political climate. Adolf Hitler, who was not yet in power but spreading his poison in Germany nonetheless, succeeded in blocking funds to send German competitors abroad: good Germans, he said, should not be mixing with foreigners...
...Coliseum had been built in 1923 with the Olympics in mind, and most of the other sites were already in place. In another parallel to 1984, only a new swimming facility had to be built to house an event. To save costs for the visiting athletes, the committee built an Olympic Village, where all the men would be fed, housed and entertained for a mere $2 a day. (The women were put in a nearby hotel at the same rate.) During previous games, teams had kept to themselves, rarely meeting athletes from other countries. But the Olympic Village, born...