Word: domes
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...than ever. It is in the process of reserving 23 stadiums for 1996, with several more possible; the intended audience approaches 1.5 million. The group's total budget, $64 million for 1995, is expected to jump commensurately. A Promise Keepers' meeting of pastors next February in Atlanta's Georgia Dome could turn out to be the biggest gathering of clergy in U.S. history. Finally, in 1997, Promise Keepers will attempt an event they had originally planned for 1996, only to see their thunder stolen by Farrakhan: a Washington march...
...hard to miss from Virginia Street, Reno's main drag: an 80-ft. aluminum geodesic dome that looks like nothing so much as a huge bowling ball, proudly and appropriately perched atop the city's new $47.5 million National Bowling Stadium. Three years in construction, the Taj Mahal of tenpins opened in February. Its 80 lanes, under a 42-ft. ceiling, are wider than a football field; it has mauve banquettes, purple and green trim and permanent seating for 1,100 spectators. Scoring is fully automatic and displayed on the world's longest rigid, backlit video screen. Every aspect...
...pair of individuals carried Harvard's banner to NCAA competitions in both cross country, indoor and outdoor track. Ian Carswell and Karen Goetze's finest hour came at the NCAA Track and Field Championships at the RCA Dome in Indianapolis, Ind. where both garnered indoor All-America status...
...LAST THURSDAY, CONGRESSMAN John Boehner took his seat at the head of a conference-room table a few steps from the Rotunda, beneath the Capitol dome. As the fourth-ranking Republican in the House and a field general in the war to pass the "Contract with America," Boehner (pronounced Bay-ner) looked at home. But his lieutenants, who were arrayed around the table strewn with coffee cups and cigarette butts, were not so natural a fit. They were not fellow lawmakers or even congressional staff members. They were lobbyists representing some of the richest special interests in the country. Still...
Sophomores Karen Goetze and Ian Carswell--natives of France and Canada, respectively--found themselves in this latest NCAA-conjured conundrum March 11 at the RCA Dome in the Indianapolis...