Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A.V.N. spread to some 50 college campuses in Georgia, grew so influential that two weeks ago it attracted more than 10,000 people to Atlanta Stadium, despite a driving rain, to hear Secretary of State Dean Rusk explain again that "the answer to the problem of peace is not in Washington-it is in Hanoi." The group has organized 150 Georgia college students as a speakers' bureau, dispatched them to about 400 meetings...
...there they were last week, the Brooklyn Eagles and the New Haven Sentinels, playing for the title in the dead of winter in just about the unlikeliest stadium imaginable: the dining room of the Fairfield (Conn.) Motor Inn. And on a gridiron that was precisely 1 ft. 7½ in. long and 1 ft. 2½ in. wide...
...Bach. The themes, of course, are pure McCartney-Lennon, but they are treated in authentic baroque style by some excellent classical musicians who call themselves the Baroque Ensemble of the Merseyside Kammermusikgesellschaft. Selections include a suite, The Royale Beatleworks Musicke, and a Cantata for the Third Saturday after Shea Stadium...
...made informally as early as 1963, and the owners finally admitted publicly that they planned to move for the 1965 season. Angry Milwaukeeans pointed out, among other things, that there was still a year to go on the Braves' contract to play in the city's County Stadium. So the team spent last season there, and was bothered by only 555,584 paying visitors...
Status Symbols. Affluence and mobility have also changed the Spaniard's habits. He is no longer thrilled at the chance to stand in a freezing soccer stadium and cheer for the home team. Soccer attendance has slipped so badly that Real Madrid, European champion for five of the past ten years, has decided to tear down its cavernous Santiago Bernabeu Stadium and build a smaller one. Spaniards are turning to more expensive diversions and status symbols. Madrid now supports 19 legitimate theaters, plus a selection of chic new "theater clubs," exclusive establishments where the up-and-coming young businessman...