Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists have been trying to substitute for Christian confirmation, and against the growing antichurch pressure of the East German regime. Last summer he played host at an all-German Katholikentag, which brought some 150,000 Catholics from both sides of the barrier together in West Berlin's Olympic Stadium. At the closing ceremonies he shouted his farewell message: "We will stay together...
...Delhi National Stadium bulged last week with Indian families in traditional saris and dhotis, but that was as far as tradition went. As the stage lights snapped on to illuminate a blindingly white rectangle of ice-50 ft. wide and 100 ft. long-bedazzled spectators found themselves plunk in the middle of a late model U.S. ice show. A line of leggy chorus girls jazzed across the frozen stage, acrobats jumped, buffoons rocked, swayed and tumbled...
...been in." Frustration began on the docks of Bombay, where $1,500 worth of lighting equipment was light-fingered away, continued apace when the New Delhi arrival of Old Betsy, Holiday's 20-ton icemaking compressor, was delayed ten days by a flood. Manager Carl Snyder found the stadium grounds awash in mud, although the monsoon was well over; municipal engineers eventually located a broken water main, while elegant opening-nighters tippy-toed to their seats on temporary wooden planking...
...calibre of play was none too high, and there was no suspense element once the Crimson got its offense functioning late in the first half; but the final result was enormously satisfying--at least to all the spectators on the west side of the Stadium...
When Curley had playfully suspended a football game in Harvard Stadium (because President Lowell was not anxious to sponsor B.C. against Holy Cross), the Crimson and the Daily Dartmouth compared him to Hitler. But in an attempt to assess the man, to make that suggestion is only to confuse matters in a manner worthy of Curley himself. For he was one Hitler who could not do without a soapbox and a Boston Irish audience. As garrulous as was his term in the State House, he did not seem made for government on that broad a scale. His lavish handouts...