Word: meters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lincoln Center is as cheery a spot as Venice's Piazza San Marco without the pigeons or quite the grandeur. People gaze, mesmerized, into splashing fountains or relax at a sidewalk café, sipping Campari or sucking fruit ice from paper cups. For a change of meter and mood, conventioneers might duck the cacophony of the Garden in exchange for the mellow sounds at Alice Tully Hall, where July is Mostly Mozart time. Unfortunately, with Spain's dazzling pianist Alicia de Laroccha currently in residence, it is also mostly sold out, but there are last-minute cancellations anyway...
...there any chance that anyone would mistake Montreal's Olympic facilities for a country fair. The 27 major installations, all now ready, include Swimming Hall, which features a main 50-meter pool and a separate diving well with a 10-meter board and its own elevator; the Velodrome, a 7,200-seat banked (48° on the curves) oval for cycling races; Desmarteau Center, a 4,500-seat basketball arena; the Robillard Center, a 3,600-seat general sports area with a pool and a handball court; a spacious equestrian area complete with jump course; and a sailing center...
...house an expected 10,500 athletes during the competition. Makeshift living modules have been set up on the ground floors to accommodate 1,300 athletes, with the rest scheduled to share the two buildings' 980 comfortably furnished apartments, ranging in size from one to six bedrooms. An 800-meter underground tunnel leads directly from the village to the stadium, both a convenience and a security measure...
...honeymoon, however, proved a short one. Departing a day later, the Air France plane raced down the runway and then lifted off with a deep-throated rumble. One FAA sound meter recorded the plane's noise level at 129 perceived noise decibels; that was 16 decibels more than the loudest Boeing 707 measured that day, and it meant, logarithmically, the Concorde was more than twice as noisy as the 707. There was no decibel reading for the British flight because the pilot, exercising his prerogative to switch runways, made a last-minute decision to take off on a runway...
Most prognosticators felt the battle would be between Eliot and Kirkland, each of which won the preliminary heats last week. But it was not to be, as Mather took three quarters of a length by the 500-meter mark and then held on, covering the 1500 meters a scant one second ahead of Eliot...