Word: halls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...memory. An estimated 2,000 policemen were deployed around Oslo; Begin was ferried to the Akershus by helicopter and bulletproof limousine. Even the location of the ceremony was a concession to police precautions. Heretofore, the Nobel award has always been bestowed at Oslo University's marble-clad Festival Hall. Security experts feared the hall offered too many opportunities to terrorists. In changing the venue, Begin's guardians unconsciously added an element of historical irony to this year's ceremony. The 14th century Akershus served during World War II as headquarters for that quintessential Nazi collaborator and anti...
...other major and minor domos needed to conduct a convention, things do go bump in the night. And the morning, and the afternoon. In 1975 the American Bankers Association had planned to introduce its new board of directors on the revolving stage at Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall. Each member was to be moved under the spotlight as the stage turned, but the power failed. When the board members were asked to walk around the stage and come under the spotlight one by one, the men, already standing in a circle, turned in different directions and bumped into...
...blaze, which damaged several rooms extensively, filled the entire third floor of the entry with smoke. Water from fire hoses and water sprinklers leaked through three floors, flooding the Adams House kitchen and forcing Robert T. Martin, dining hall manger, to cancel lunch...
...course, one of the main objectives of the NUS is to allign students with campus employees like dining hall workers, instead of allowing divisions between the two groups to undermine student-worker solidarity...
...Hall and Rohr bought a three-week unlimited mileage ticket on Eastern Air Lines, and jetted across the country to promote their product...