Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them women. But he did not preach. He had the wrong kind of visa. Russian Baptist leaders explained politely: "It is not customary here to have tourists preach." Perhaps this would be possible on his next visit, they added, and Billy asked to be shown the mammoth Lenin Stadium, which seats 100,000. ("I knelt and asked God," he said later, "that some day it will be filled with people listening to the Gospel...
...Dancing has a tendency to invigorate the spirit and promote health," said the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith of Palmyra, N.Y. Last week at Salt Lake City's University of Utah Stadium, 8,000 young Mormons in blue skirts and white blouses. Spanish costumes, tangerine and black jumpers or pastel formals romped and whirled through a two-night program of waltzes, fox trots, folk dances, tangos, rumbas and square and round dances and even some "toned-down" jitterbug steps...
...baseball history, only two men had ever hit four consecutive home runs in one game. * But one night last week, in Baltimore's vast Memorial Stadium, Cleveland Outfielder Rocco Domenico Colavito stepped out of a batting slump and into the record books with four mighty swings of his 33-oz. bat. His fourth straight homer, a long blast into the left-field bleachers some 410 ft. away, came in the ninth inning off Baltimore Orioles Reliefer Ernie Johnson, who had not allowed a homer all season. What was more, Colavito brought off his feat in a park rated...
Slugger Colavito, 25, is a rugged (6 ft. 3 in., 190 lbs.) lad, whose rippling biceps seem to make visible bulges on the television screen. The son of a Bronx truck driver, Rocky grew up in the shadow of Yankee Stadium, played ball just across the street in Macomb's Dam Park. Naturally, the Yankees were his boyhood heroes. Naturally, the Yankees gave him a tryout when he was only 16, but let him get away when the Indians topped the Yankees' half-hearted bid with a still modest offer of $3,000. Last year, in his second...
...distinguished himself. But he has a thorny, give-and-ask-no-quarter personality; he also has an implacable opponent of great talent and resolve. The result is Washington's highest drama - played out on the Senate floor, in cloakrooms, at black-tie dinners, in the seats at Griffith Stadium. As written by Bill Bowen and edited by Champ Clark, see the cover story on The Strauss Affair...