Word: gymnasium
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Basketball-varsity coach Bob Harrison would like a 4500-seat gymnasium. The IAB court is always overcrowded during the hours in which pickup games are allowed. A new field house on Soldiers' Field is a possibility...
Reappraisal Needed. For the Japanese hosts, and for most of the 4,500 fans who thronged daily into the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium, the results were a severe blow. Japan won only one title-in the women's team competition-for its worst showing since 1952. To compound the ignominy, the Japanese saw their 1969 world singles champ, Shigeo Ito, upset in the men's final by Sweden's Stellan Bengtsson, 18. Said a crestfallen spokesman for the Japanese delegation: "We simply have to have a sweeping reappraisal of our techniques...
...interesting spectacle. The conference room was the gymnasium of Catholic University, its pictures of former basketball greats temporarily taken down in favor of large red on white signs demanding immediate withdrawal from Southeast Asia. In the back of the room, on the right, you could get a slice of baloney or American cheese between two pieces of bread for thirty-five cents, or get a coke for a quarter. People were starting to get pissed. "Shit, in Ann Arbor, they had all this stuff free, they didn't try to rip you off. That was a real people's conference...
...OSTENSIBLE purpose of the conference was to determine a spring strategy for the antiwar movement, but the issue had pretty much been decided by the time the conference started. Entering the gymnasium Friday evening, one was greeted by huge banners proclaiming the march on Washington April 24 as the central focus of the spring actions, and the hawkers were pushing buttons and posters with the big 24 on them. SMC had already decided that April 24 was going to be the day when the American people would rise up and force the government to withdraw from Southeast Asia. Like...
...portion of the Harvard track team will be competing today in the Intercollegiate Amateur Athletic Association of America meet at Princeton's Jadwin Gymnasium...