Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...monument to himself? For Houston's Kubla Khan, Roy ("Giltfinger") Hofheinz, it obviously had to be a pleasure dome on the order of the Great Pyramid or the Colossus of Rhodes. To Builder Hofheinz, Houston's new, $31.6 million "Astrodome" - the first covered, fully air-conditioned baseball stadium -is literally "the Eighth Wonder of the World." When he showed it off to French Ambassador Hervé Alphand, the ambassador made the mistake of remarking that the Astrodome's lattice work roof reminded him of the Eiffel Tower. Sniffed Hofheinz: "The Eiffel Tower is all right...
Boston University pushed across one run in the fifth inning and beat the Crimson baseball team, 1 to 0, yesterday at Splinter Stadium...
Boston University moves into Splinter Stadium at 3 p.m. tomorrow for the GBL opener, and the Crimson will be the underdog. B.U. carries a 2-1-1 record into the game, including a 3-1 victory over Navy. Harvard lost 4-0 to Navy last week...
Today's varsity home baseball game against Springfield in Splinter Stadium begins...
...tiny, reliable and cool-running-took over from vacuum tubes in 1958. The state of the art has been speeded considerably by the U.S. military and its pressing demands for larger, faster computers. One of today's computers can make more calculations in one hour than a Yankee Stadium full of scientists could make in a man's lifetime. Some of the more sophisticated machines can multiply 500,000 ten-digit numbers in one second. Even if no further advances were made in computer technology, some scientists maintain, the computer has provided enough work and opportunities...