Word: coliseums
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...Trojans of Southern Cal, number one in the polls since the season began, will face their cross town rivals, the 14th ranked Bruins, of UCLA, in what is expected to be a packed Los Angeles Coliseum, Southern Cal, with a one-game lead on the Bruins needs only a tie to take the Bowl and the championship. The game will begin...
...given a copy of Nixon's evening speech shortly after he first arrived at Westchester airport that afternoon. I knew what he was going to say, so I put excerpts from his speech in my story. I didn't know that several hundred demonstrators had infiltrated the Nassau County Coliseum, that they would disrupt Nixon's speech and that they would be forcibly ejected from the auditorium. So that important event didn't make the morning paper. Too bad, but that's the way it goes in the news business...
...year and tried to hire him to disrupt Democratic campaigners. "It wasn't represented as a strong-arm operation," said Shipley. "He stressed what fun we could have." As an example of the trouble he might cause, Shipley was told that he could call the manager of a coliseum where a Democratic rally was to be held. He could represent himself as the candidate's field manager and report some threats from hippies or other troublemakers, asking that the rally be moved up to, say, 9 o'clock, thus ensuring that the coliseum would be padlocked when...
Statistics bear him out. A motocross race at Daytona drew 25,000 last spring, while "The Superbowl of Motocross" held in the Los Angeles Coliseum this summer drew close...
...COUSINS, 40, real estate developer. Seven years ago, in a move ridiculed by most businessmen, Cousins acquired the air rights over 70 acres of defunct railroad yards in a blighted part of town. Today he is about to open a $17 million, 17,000-seat coliseum on the property. For tenants, he bought the St. Louis Hawks basketball team and moved them to Atlanta, and has organized a National Hockey League team, the Atlanta Flames. Cousins has some $600 million in other construction planned for his site, including apartments, offices, a hotel and a convention hall. "In the next...