Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students were settling down in a new dormitory designed in the modern style of the school's eight other buildings. Between classes, blue-sweatered members of the Borregos (Rams), Tecnológico's U.S.-style football team, watched builders at work on a stadium that will eventually seat 45,000. In the 20,000-volume library and well-equipped laboratories, other students were busy on courses from elementary bookkeeping to advanced engineering...
...they thought there is a need at the College for an ice rink. The rink, which would be strictly a "natural" one dependent on the weather, would be regulation hockey size and could be used by the varsity and House hockey squads. It would be located probably in the stadium or right next...
...prospective sponsors wouldn't pay over $50,000 in rights; only once last year--after a sellout house had been assured--did the TV camera follow championship boxing. However, there has been this one compromise: in general, only the setowners within a 50 or 75 mile radius of the stadium are done out of their television, for outside this area the promoters have no worries...
...Arthur: "There is no substitute for victory." If West Point's tough, all-conquering football squad needed any further goad last week, it was supplied by pre-game gibes from the Navy cheering section. With President Harry Truman and 102,442 others watching in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, Annapolis banners flaunted some sore subjects...
...central character, a backwoods idealist who becomes a one-man state government, is hard-centered, soft-surfaced Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford). His life story is told in choppy, dramatic incidents, which give the movie a curious pattern-Stark at the football stadium, Stark haranguing a fairgrounds crowd, Stark bulldozing the legislators, Stark posing for cameramen with his estranged family. The small, disconnected scenes hit the eye with the repetitive impact of telephone poles seen from a fast train, and din the main character deep into the mind...