Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three cameras from New York's WABC-TV will be used in Priceton's Dillon gymnasium, including one with a special lens capable of picking up the movies from the same screen which the players will be watching...
...tower near by will house an electronic carillon system "to match any in the world." And day and night its top will flare with a big natural-gas torch that Pastor Alexander calls "The Flame of Religious Freedom." Still in the planning stage: a youth center with swimming pool, gymnasium, tennis courts and dance floor. Some of Bill's parishioners wonder how they ever got along with their old church...
...tall, crew-cut swimmer looked as good as ever. Gliding through the practice pool at Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium one day last week, modest John Glover, 22, flashed the form that had made him one of the top freestylers in swimming history when he was at Dartmouth a year ago. In training for the Olympic tryouts in August, he was one of the nation's brightest prospects...
...went back to Washington as the junior Senator from Kentucky. But he was an aging man: his sight was failing; he was tired. Last week he went to Lexington, Va., to keynote the traditional mock Democratic National Convention at Washington & Lee University. Before a capacity crowd in the university gymnasium, he again stood up to give a scathing, ultra-partisan Democratic speech that, largely because of the humor in it, would not offend even the most partisan Republicans. Looking back through history, he credited all the good in the U.S. to Democrats, all the bad to the G.O.P...
Shivering spectators applauded, the police band whanged away for all it was worth. Any kind of action helped cut the chill of Tokyo's clammy, cavernous Metropolitan Gymnasium. Then the contestants, some 150 table-tennis players from 16 different countries, marched in, a radiant blaze of uniforms under the bright lights. Any color except white was allowed at the 23rd World Championship