Word: coliseums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past, the International Automobile Show in New York City's mammoth Coliseum has been an annual rite of spring for eager dealers and motorists. This year's show, which ends this week, was singularly different. The cars were there-and so were environmentalists...
...crowd of 8300 in the 15,000-seat Memorial Coliseum roared throughout the championship bout at 190 pounds as number one seeded Ben Peterson of Iowa State decisioned Syracuse's Vince Paolano, 9-6. "It was a pretty good crowd considering it was in Auburn. Ala., which isn't near anything," Lee said...
...slim crowd of 500, in Auburn's 15,000 seat Memorial Coliseum, witnessed over 200 opening round bouts yesterday. In the 142 pound class, Pat Coleman was eliminated, 4-3, by Chester Cook of the California State Teachers College of Pennsylvania...
Edwards warned blacks of the results of a premature racial revolution. "If it comes to black against white it will be the most lopsided affair since the lions ate lunch at the Coliseum. You hear talk of guerrilla warfare, but the white people are going to be guerrillas too. We have neither the guns nor the hands...
Elsewhere in the U.S., the action at some of the 337 closed-circuit TV sites was a bit too realistic. In the Chicago Coliseum, a riot broke out when the TV transmission broke down. Across town at the International Amphitheater, police had to turn firehoses on an angry mob of 1,000 trying to storm their way into the sold-out house. In Pittsburgh, 5,500 hardy souls braved subfreezing temperatures and icy 30-m.p.h. winds to see the fight outdoors at the Three Rivers Stadium. The fight fever knew no boundaries. In Manila, classes were suspended so that schoolchildren...