Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concert date in Cincinnati during the first week of an 18-day blitz of the East and Midwest, The Who found itself performing after a crowd stampede that killed eleven people. The tragedy took place outside Riverfront Coliseum as thousands of kids holding unreserved seats charged across a concrete plaza toward two unlocked entrances. The group had not yet come onstage. "If it had happened inside," said Townshend, "I would never have played again." The musicians could not be blamed and, indeed, did not learn what had happened until after the concert. They were shattered, and, for a time, considered...
...early evening there were 8,000 people, most holding general admission tickets, massed in the coliseum plaza near the west gate. By 7, the doors had still not been opened. The crowd, past patience, pressed closer together. Danny and Connie Burns were among them...
They seat six students, bound and gagged, in the middle of the plaza. There is an executioner wearing a black veil. He totes a padded wiffle-ball bat. The MC speaks into a homemade PA to the motley gathering of workers, bums and passers...
...across the city," the beaming mayor told campaign workers who packed the Copley Plaza ballroom, adding. "We will always differ as a people, but we will no longer divided as a people...
...arrested were taken to Police Plaza in Manhattan or to the 84th precinct house in Brooklyn. Demonstrators who refused to give their names, or whom police charged with resisting arrest, will be held until "the arraignments can take place, which may take a while since we are kind of clogged up," officer Richard Barbari said yesterday. Several demonstrators said police warned them they might be detained as long as 3 to 6 hours if they refuse to cooperate...