Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last Saturday it was Harvard who invaded the state of Maine, to try their luck against the Colby sextet. The result was a crushing 1-2 victory. Tonight at 8 p.m. a different Maine representative, Bowdoin, will visit Watson rink, but the outcome should be about the same...
...Hockey vs. Northeastern Fr. at 2 p.m., Watson Rink...
...next architect to catch Griswold's eye was the late Eero Saarinen, Yale '34. Commissioned to do simply a hockey rink, Saarinen achieved a daring structure whose wooden roof is slung from a single humpbacked reinforced concrete spine, so that inside there are no pillars to block the view. Saarinen spent far more than the money that had been budgeted for the project, but the hockey rink so pleased critics and trustees alike that Saarinen subsequently was put to drawing up a master development plan for Yale. Along the line he won a commission close...
Before it ended, an explosion thundered through the auditorium. A 30-ft. wall of flame shot over a section of box seats and rinkside folding chairs. In an instant, the rink was littered with enormous chunks of concrete, shredded programs, crumpled popcorn boxes, splintered seats, twisted steel-and dozens of limp or painfully writhing bodies that lay in puddles of blood spreading over the ice. It took a moment for the horror to register. Then the gay chorus line broke in a scramble of skate blades and screams. A woman in the audience shrieked to her companion...
Within minutes, a call went out for every ambulance within miles. Hospitals called in off-duty personnel. Hundreds of rescue workers descended on the Coliseum. Auto wreckers and a construction crane rumbled onto the ice rink, began lifting blocks of concrete to free the dead and the injured. Doctors and nurses, their clothing streaked with dried blood, worked feverishly. Others organized a makeshift morgue on the rink. Beneath gay red and green Chinese lanterns left over from the finale, men laid bodies on boards, covered them with blankets, tarpaulins and overcoats, and marked each with a curt description such...