Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Houston's one-man answer to P.T. Barnum, William Zeckendorf and Clint Murchison-the developer extraordinary whose projects always seem to start with a thud, then prosper with a vengeance. His Astrodome, for example. Hailed as "the Eighth Wonder of the World," the air-conditioned stadium began with a clear plastic roof. Baseball players lost fly balls in the glare, so the dome was painted. Then sunlight could not reach the grass, which withered, so artificial turf was laid down. Now everybody is happy...
...autumn of 1917, winning the first three, tieing the next three, and losing the last one. After opening the season with a 37-0 win over Dean Academy at Franklin, the Informals beat Bumpkin Naval Reserves 35-0 at Soldiers Field an the First Marine Heavy Artillery in the Stadium...
...highlight of the 1917 season came on November 3, when the Army from Camp Devens met the Navy Yard in a championship contest in the Stadium following a 6500-man military parade. H. T. Enwright '19 paced the Ensigns to a 28-0 victory before 20,000 fans...
...students were able to attend Class Day that year--though it was billed as the first "reunion" for the Class of '18--that ceremonies were moved from the Stadium to Sanders Theatre. They were again moved to the quadrangle behind Sever Hall so that the Class could stage a confetti battle...
...personal social issues. On the last day of October, Harvard upset Princeton, a school Cambridge men scorned because it still refused to admit Negroes, by a 19-14 score. During the game Boston police confiscated all issues of the Massachusetts Free Press, which Harvard students were distributing outside the Stadium. The Press supported the impending state referendum legalizing the dispensation of birth control information by doctors. Boston's finest ended the effort because, as they explained, "someone would have to come and pick up all the pamphlets that were dropped in the streets...