Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aside the cold war's barriers by trading visits with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. The chatter about the New Eisenhower came during an Ike week that was dramatic in several other ways. The President was in his usual top form at his press conference, held in a converted Gettysburg gymnasium. On Capitol Hill, an attempt to override an Eisenhower veto of an inflated housing bill failed miserably and all but nailed down a victory for Ike in his long, steady fight to balance the U.S. budget. After the year's most dramatic legislative battle, when the U.S. House...
...half block between the Gettysburg Hotel and the old gymnasium, which had been converted into an auditorium, was lined with people-women in shorts, men with straw hats, kids with sunburned faces. Between them, smiling to their applause, moved the President of the U.S., on his way to the auditorium for his weekly press conference. Uppermost in Ike's mind: the forthcoming visit to the U.S. of Russia's Nikita Khrushchev. Said the President to the 95 newsmen at the press conference: "I would hope for a bettering of the atmosphere between the East and the West...
...majesty of Louisiana law was District Judge Robert D. Jones, presiding over his court from a dais beneath the folded-up basketball backboard of the Covington (pop. 5,000), La. junior high school gymnasium. Around him, jamming available folding chairs and pressed back against the peeling green walls of the gym, were arrayed more than a thousand sweltering Louisianians-many of them leathery farmers in shirtsleeves, who had arrived before dawn (and had been sustained through the humid hours by soft drinks sold by the ladies of the P.T.A. for the benefit of the junior high encyclopedia fund). At precisely...
Into Tokyo's Metropolitan Gymnasium last week poured an impressive throng of 4,500 Anglicans and Episcopalians, including church dignitaries from eleven nations, to celebrate the centenary of their first mission in Japan.* The Buddhists had just been in the same hall to commemorate the 2,500th anniversary of Buddha's birth by posing such questions as "Does the accomplishment of sunya [nothingness] depend on pratityasamutpada [cause and effect]?" The Anglicans held a more down-to-earth meeting. There were speeches on the benefits of atomic energy and discussions of the Communist menace to Asia. But the high...
...opera one evening, Jim ("The Golden Greek'') Londos, onetime heavyweight wrestling champion of the world, persuaded him that the real money was in the wrestling ring. Publicity-wise Ray Fabiani set up scholarships for young wrestlers (the recipients were sent to a muscle-building gymnasium), lured ex-Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis into a brief and unrewarding wrestling career, spiced his programs with talks by celebrities, including Philadelphia's Father Divine...