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...every 24 men, women and children in the land. And the $2.5 billion business they keep afloat is confident of booming new records in 1963. This week the boat business played host to the boat-hooked public at the 53rd annual Motor Boat Show in Manhattan's Coliseum...
...Seattle. Major legacy of the Century 21 Exposition, which will close on Oct. 21, will be the handsome Seattle Center, a $40 million cultural complex that includes a 3,100-seat opera house, an 800-seat theater, an exhibition hall, and a coliseum that can serve as a site for conventions...
...Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, Virgil Grissom, Leroy Cooper and Donald Slayton-drove by with their families. To Walt Schirra, hundreds held up six fingers for the number of orbits he is to make in the next U.S. space flight. The parade led to the Sam Houston Coliseum for a neighborly cookout at which 1,500 chickens, 2,000 Ibs. of spareribs, 3,000 lbs. of beef were served up to 6,000 Space Center workers and their families. As the astronauts were given the traditional Texas totems-a ten-gallon sombrero and a gold reserve sheriff...
Fortnight ago, Snell ran in the Los Angeles Coliseum Relays against two of the U.S.'s fleetest milers: Dyrol Burleson (best time: 3 min. 57.6 sec.) and Jim Grelle (3 min. 58.9 sec.). Burleson, who had beaten Snell twice before, was confident of victory, and for the first three-quarters of the race, it looked as though he might win. Snell was maintaining a 5-yd. lead, but the lanky Oregonian is well known for his finishing kick. With only an eighth of a mile to go, Snell lowered his head and started sprinting. By the time Burleson reacted...
...front. Also at the Coliseum: a new world's record in the shotput by University of Southern California's Dallas Long with a throw of 65 ft. 10½ in.; a new world's record in the discus by two-time Olympic Champion Al Oerter with a throw of 200 ft. 5½ in., first time the 200-ft. mark has been reached...