Word: coliseums
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...chorus line of 36 barelegged beauties on skates swirled in synchronized precision over the ice rink in Indianapolis' State Fairgrounds Coliseum. They wore sequined leotards and yellow-feathered headdresses, and they dipped and swooped together to the ricky-tick tempo of an 18-piece band playing Dixieland. Fireworks sparked near the roof girders, and a family-trade crowd of 4,320 oohed and aahed. This was the finale of the Holiday on Ice show's first night in Indianapolis-a Mardi Gras production number...
...Southwest-and, more important, a better one than Dallas. With the patronage of Houston's cultural leader, Miss Ima Hogg, 81, and a $700,000 annual budget, it plays a regular concert season embellished with "dollar night" concerts for as many as 25,000 in the Sam Houston Coliseum. This year, it will even venture east for a concert tour of 20 cities, grandly climaxed in March with a New York performance in Philharmonic Hall-the first such coup by any Southwestern orchestra...
...night last week, Ernie climbed into the ring at the Baltimore Coliseum to fight New York's Wayne Bethea, 31. A hulking 205-pounder, Bethea had fought Sonny Liston and Ezzard Charles, had a record of 32-19-3. Ernie weighed 184 Ibs. on the boxing commission's scales, and he had not fought in nearly a year. "You have to prove yourself," shrugged his manager. "You have to be ready to take a chance...
...dizzying. This time the budget was $600,000. Teams of Graham staffers sent in ahead of time to make preparations for the crusade signed up 3,500 Southern California churches as sponsors, formed a prestigious crusade committee headed by Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy. The crowd at the Los Angeles Coliseum the first day was 38,000. During the first ten days the crusade drew 300,000 people. At least 25,000 came forward to make their decisions for Christ, including 3,216 in one night alone-a record for Graham...
Vellucci's position on the castle remains dependent on the outcome of his investigation of secret prison plans. He also mentioned that if Appian St. was indeed named after the Via Appia in Rome he might propose that Harvard build a coliseum instead of a castle...