Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Race. What's wrong? Every baseball mogul has a theory. Cincinnati's Robert Howsam blames the weather: "In 22 of our first 26 games we had either rain or the threat of it." Others pick on TV and the unattractiveness of older big-league stadiums, at least two of which-Chicago's Comiskey Park and Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium-are located in ghetto areas, which many fans are afraid to traverse at night. The pitchers' domination of the sport and the concurrent decline in hitting (as of last week only eight major-leaguers were...
...various laser wave lengths, about 1,000 times shorter than those of the microwaves used in conventional radar, make laser altimeters, range finders and aerial mappers remarkably accurate. In a demonstration of a laser distance-measuring device, Spectra-Physics, Inc. flew the instrument over a Philadelphia high school stadium at an altitude of 1,000 ft. A conventional radar altimeter would have indicated only the slope of the stadium; the laser picked out each row of seats, the one-foot space between each row, and even the slight depression of the running track at ground level. In no more than...
...sensual hammering music. At the end of their performance, Rod Stewart said "We're sorry to leave, but we'll come back to play here in September." Forget it fellas. Next time the Jeff Beck Group comes to this country they'll be playing in Los Angeles in a stadium that seats...
COACHES ALL-AMERICA FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 8:30-11:30 p.m.). Top 60 college seniors of the 1967 season compete (East against West) on the Atlanta Stadium gridiron...
...Among them, the four boast a season's record of 25 wins, only eleven defeats, and a combined earned-run average of 1.74. The excitement they generate is reflected at the gate. In a year when attendance elsewhere has declined dramatically, 54,259 fans turned out at Shea Stadium last week to watch Rookie Koosman beat the San Francisco Giants 7-3 and boost his record...