Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After putting in 40,000 man-hours of work, Forward Thrust developed a working program that would cost $5.5 billion to realize-also much too expensive. While part of the committee pared this down to essentials-like a new stadium, storm sewers, a rapid-transit system and parks-other men prepared bills for the state legislature to enable the thrust to move forward. Of 19 proposed bills, 18 passed. Most important were measures to double King County's debt limit and to enable the county to borrow on behalf of its 30 cities. They permitted the county to finance...
That involvement is achieved, he continues, "through face-to-face give and take. In a fragmented urban society, the need for honest communication is critical. We are all minorities. Some of us like the stadium; others want electric utilities buried out of sight. Only by agreeing on one group of aims can we become a majority...
Cornerback Johnny Sample spent five minutes alone in the stadium washroom, kneeling in prayer. And Joe's mother was at home saying the rosary...
...wonderful. There were lots of All-America players to buy and trade A big stadium to fill with cheering fans Coaches to advise And, best of all, there was the fun of going to the Bel-Air Hotel bar and staying up late at night talking football with friends. The only trouble was that too often Danny's team lost more games than it won, once for seven seasons in a row. That got to be boring and, in an effort to liven things up, Danny kept switching coaches. When he fired No. 6 just two days before Christmas...
Tournament of Noses. The President-elect became an impassioned, if studiedly neutral fan inside Pasadena's huge stadium, despite the fact that Pat Nixon is a graduate of the Pacific Eight champion, Southern Cal. He leaped to his feet when Heisman Trophy Winner O. J. Simpson took off on his 80-yard touchdown run and summoned with rapid gestures his own version of instant replay for the benefit of former Oklahoma Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, who sat on Nixon's right. A reporter inquired if Nixon was attending his first Rose Bowl game...