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...Italian logic to strike if they were fired. Opera leaders predicted the imminent closing of La Scala and other houses for lack of funds. Government opponents in the Senate feared a loss of tourist trade. (Said one opera stage director: "Tourists come to Italy to see the Pope, the Colosseum and opera. Next they'll tear down the Colosseum to make a parking lot.") The Communist paper L'Unitaá meanwhile played the story as the tragedy of the poor workingman forced to foot the bills for "the luxuries and extravagances" of opera stars paid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Crisis in Italy | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

SPRINGFIELD, Mass.--A bad night for shooting and good night in the nets by A.I.C. goalie Bill Bennett kept the varsity hockey to a narrow 4 to 2 victory here at the Eastern States Colosseum last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Edges A.I.C., 4-2; Goalie Foils 50 Varsity Attempts | 1/11/1957 | See Source »

...varsity hockey team should be able to take a slight breather tonight when it faces small American International College in the Eastern States Colosseum at Springfield, Mass...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Varsity Skaters To Face A.I.C. at Springfield Today | 1/10/1957 | See Source »

...Quest for Bridey Hammerschlaugen (Stan Freberg; Capitol). A parody of the well-publicized hypnotic journey into previous incarnations to search for Bridey Murphy. This Bridey declares she lives outside Rome in 200 A.D., and is an usherette at the Colosseum. And she has a hot tip: put a bundle on Ben Hur in the fifth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pop Records | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

University of Rome, Blanc hit upon the Torre site by accident. In the grass at the bottom of a hill 13 miles northwest of the Colosseum, he picked up a curious object that turned out to be the fossilized tooth of a prehistoric elephant. Professor Blanc borrowed a fleet of bulldozers and scraped until, 138 feet down, he exposed the remains of a primitive campsite strewn with hand axes and stone flakes. Many of the bones of the deer, elephants and horses that lay alongside had been cracked open by the hand-ax wielders, apparently in their search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

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