Word: indoor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reservation in Britain, a sort of sanctuary for the vanishing boffolo, where variety acts by the dozen still command high prices and audiences queue up in multiple thousands. Strung out along a seven-mile waterfront promenade, Lancashire's Blackpool could well be called the world's foremost indoor resort. The salt air that attracts so many Britons to the edge of the Irish Sea is so often filled with raindrops that all comers are driven inside to watch everything from burlesque with pratfalls to ballet with waterfalls...
...field house with a geodesic dome to replace the traditional gym. Though it includes a basketball court (taken apart at season's end), the field house is not limited by the court's dimensions. The domed design yields 41,000 sq. ft. of enclosed space, including an indoor dirt track, exercise rooms, and seats for the Wayland Town Meeting...
...girls have won the national indoor and outdoor women's championships for each of the past six years. At the trials, led by willowy Wilma Rudolph-who set a world record of 22.9 sec. in the 200-meter dash earlier this month-the Tiger-belles prompted Temple to the euphoric hope that the U.S. women might surprise the heavily favored Australians, Russians and British at Rome...
Statistics & Resolutions. In Rio's crush, one Brazilian delegate was killed in a streetcar accident, eight underwent emergency operations, 260 applied for first-aid treatment, and nine lost their Bibles. In the city's Maracanazinho indoor stadium (25,000 capacity), delegates and spectators met for 14 plenary sessions, plus dozens of sectional meetings, during which the congress...
...FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE. In an elaborately built, indoor San Francisco, passengers ride cable cars through quiet, hilly streets. Suddenly the earth rumbles, hinged buildings sway and shake, a house-built like a Venetian blind-crumbles while-u-wait, a tall monument topples, is stopped just short of clobbering the spectators...