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Stadium is a monument to optimism (its seating capacity is unlikely to be taxed), Los Angeles' $18 million Dodger Stadium is a shrine of success: since they moved to Los Angeles and its 95,000-seat Coliseum in 1958, the onetime Brooklyn Bums have smashed every attendance record in the National League. A seven-level pleasure dome of concrete, steel, aluminum, glass, plastic and brick, their new stadium is situated in Chavez Ravine, just five minutes from downtown Los Angeles, holds only 56,000 fans. But canny Dodger President Walter O'Malley expects no decline in revenues. Ticket...
...show was the formal garden of acacias and fountains from the Great Hill Farm of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stone of Marion. Mass. The gold-blossomed acacia trees, insured with Lloyd's of London for $100,000. had survived beautifully their recent trip to Manhattan's Coliseum, where they had dazzled visitors to the 45th International Flower Show...
American boatniks, now 7,000,000 strong, have two great compulsions: to get out on the water, and to trade their boats in for something bigger and better. This week in Manhattan, rag-haulers and stinkpotters thronged the New York Coliseum to see the bigger and better at the 52nd National Motor Boat Show...
...with another, grander fair. By the time the three reached the label on the bottle, the fair was no joke, and things began to happen. The city pledged $10 million for an opera house, a theater and an exhibition hall. The state put up $10 million more for a coliseum. Local businessmen rounded up another $4.5 million, and finally the Federal Government appropriated $9,000,000. Then Joseph E. Gandy, Ford dealer and fair president, went to Paris and brashly asked the Bureau of International Expositions to designate the Seattle Fair as the only international fair it would recognize...
...WASHINGTON STATE COLISEUM, four acres of aluminum-covered space without a supporting column. Visitors will view exhibits from a "cloud" of 3,000 aluminum cubes, each 4 ft. square. After the fair, the coliseum will become the city's largest (capacity 20,000) sports arena...