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Pastel and pillarless, the new Garden itself was part of the attraction. When it first opened, New York newspapers sniped at its imperfections: a few (approximately 1,500 out of 20,500) seats with bad sight lines for hockey and track, water leaking from the ceiling, a nonfunctioning electric Scoreboard and clock. Even so, its problems were nothing compared with those at the new Philadelphia Spectrum, where the roof blew off, or the Inglewood Forum, which boasts southern California's most awesome traffic jam in its parking lot. By fight night, most of the Garden's problems...
...sports complex will feature a 25,000-seat main arena building completely free from the interior columns that give present Garden fans a frequent crick in the neck. The new design by Soapman- Turned-Architect Charles Luckman will achieve its pillarless view by what he calls "the first use in such a large structure of a compression ring"-steel cables imbedded in concrete that support the roof. Onetime president of Lever Brothers Co. (1946-50), Luckman now employs 336 planners, architects and engineers, currently has $202 million worth of construction work under way from missile research centers to Los Angeles...
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