Word: coliseums
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...evening college basketball game. Now it lay in ruins. Said Restaurateur Frank Parseliti, owner of one of the 50-odd small businesses situated in the-$70 million civic center complex that was built only three years ago: "It looks like a big meteorite crashed in the middle of the coliseum." With a terrifying roar, the 2½-acre, 1,400-ton steel-latticed roof of the deserted arena had collapsed under the weight of 4.8 in. of wet snow...
Athanson and his fellow Hartfordites were thankful that no one was hurt in the accident. But they were shaken, since the civic center was the symbol of the city's downtown renewal, and the 12,500-seat coliseum was the cynosure of the complex. Home of the World Hockey Association's New England Whalers, the arena was also the site of other sporting events, concerts and conventions. As a result of the roofs collapse, more than 300 scheduled events will have to be canceled; in the 1½ to two years that may be needed to rebuild...
...baseball Establishment as it did to Denverites. For the move signaled the departure from baseball of Oakland Owner Charles O. Finley after nearly two decades as resident curmudgeon of the national pastime. The sale-temporarily blocked last week by a federal court restraining order obtained by the Oakland Coliseum-must be okayed by ten of the American League's 14 owners. But approval should be quickly forthcoming from men who have little love for Finley and his maverick behavior...
...women, men and children into the Astrohall, and 2,000 others had to wait outside. They had arrived from far and near aboard chartered planes and dusty buses. Cheer for cheer, epithet for epithet, the "profamily" gathering easily matched the ardor of its counterpart in the Sam Houston Coliseum, and its rhetoric was substantially greater...
...sights to emerge from the National Women's Conference, perhaps none was more compelling than the panoply of three First Ladies of the U.S., all precisely coiffed, dressed with impeccable conservatism, ankles neatly crossed, sitting side by side at the opening session in the Sam Houston Coliseum to promote the Equal Rights Amendment. "We don't look like bomb throwers, and we don't think like that either," said Lady Bird Johnson. Yet there they were: Lyndon Johnson's widow, Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter...