Word: riverfronts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also would not estimate when Con Ed would need Harvard's land, but said most of the early work would be done at the riverfront, on the opposite side of the project...
Leaving the Cincinnati Riverfront Stadium the afternoon before the season's opening game. Witteman looked up to see a dark "funnel" looming in the distant sky. "At first I didn't know what it was," he recalled. By the next morning he learned that it was only one of many tornadoes that had smashed through eleven states (see THE NATION); the twisters had devastated half the city of Xenia, Ohio, only 60 miles away. Witteman called New York and was told to report on the Xenia tragedy-after the game...
That is the way it will look some day in the record book. Last week it was flesh and blood, bat and ball; it was one man and the memory of another at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati. Barely ten minutes into his 21st major league season, Henry Louis Aaron stood at the plate with two Atlanta Brave teammates on base and a count of three balls and one strike. Around him were 52,000 expectant fans. Behind him were six months of anxiety and anticipation. Hanging over him was Babe Ruth's most celebrated feat-714 lifetime home runs...
...make him homer." The Cincinnati Reds, though, are taking no chances. All balls pitched to Aaron will be invisibly coded to assure that the genuine home-run balls will be identifiable. Security forces will be on the alert, and one devoted fan will be at Riverfront Stadium every day accompanied by three policemen and $12,000 in cash to buy home-run ball No. 715 if Aaron happens to break the record in Cincinnati...
...December ruling by New York's Federal District Court requires that Con Ed obtain permits from the Army Corps of Engineers for dredging and filling at the riverfront, and that it hold hearings to allow public comment on the permits. The utility has filed for a permit, but at the same has appealed the court ruling...