Word: coliseums
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...fewer seats would have to be filled. But a crowd of 9,000 jammed the hall and spilled into the aisles. Another 2,500 found seats in an adjoining auditorium, where speeches were piped in. Still another 1,500 milled outside. Police turned back 1,000 cars because the coliseum parking lot was filled bumper to bumper...
...while his erstwhile rivals were telling the 70,000 people in the Los Angeles Coliseum what a great guy he was, Jack Kennedy fidgeted in his chair, nervously fingered his lips and ears, chatted with his neighbor, or worked at scraping a wad of gum off his right shoe. When the time came to accept the Democratic presidential nomination, he graciously saluted the vanquished one by one-Running Mate Lyndon Johnson, Adlai Stevenson, Stuart Symington, Hubert Humphrey, also scrappy Paul Butler, retiring chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and the absent Harry Truman. Then Jack Kennedy plunged into his speech...
Melted Ice. At week's end. Rockefeller's icy tone toward Nixon melted into proper smiles when the two men met at the opening of the British Exhibition in Manhattan's Coliseum and exchanged what may have been the most insincere greetings of the week. "Hiya, fella," said Rocky. "Nice to see you again...
Four trumpeters of Her Majesty's Royal Horse Guards blew a fourfold fanfare. Down green-carpeted steps in Manhattan's Coliseum walked Britain's Prince Philip past unicorns draped in silks and tartans. Quickly he got down to business, gave a suave but hard sell. "We hope you will find a lot of interesting things," said Philip, "and we hope you will want to own many of the things...
...newer models of both the DC-8 and Boeing 707. Sales of nonelectrical machinery jumped last year to $125 million, replacing Scotch as Britain's second largest export item to the U.S. Machinery manufacturers, trying harder than ever, were showing an extremely wide range of machines at the Coliseum from those that counted currency to those that made cigarettes...