Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aerial Lobbying. One of Kissinger's official reasons for making the trip was to be the guest of honor at the major league All-Star game. Just before the contest began, a single-engine airplane circled Milwaukee County Stadium towing a sign that spelled out in giant red letters: DR. KISSINGER-ISRAEL IS NOT FOR SALE. Kissinger studiously ignored the aerial lobbying, hoping it would go away, and it did. Then the stadium announcer came on the loudspeaker to boom out a hearty welcome to "Dr. Harry Kissinger." (This was not Kissinger's only such difficulty: one well...
...Alumni were thought of as racoon-skin-capped, musket-carrying people who only showed up for football games--and thank God the stadium's across the river," he says. But that attitude changed with a new batch of senior faculty. Shultz adds, and when Dartmouth and Cornell started alumni programs the Harvard alumni office begn to work on a comprehensive proposal...
...olde lyric courtyard," as sportswriter Peter Gammons calls it, is the most beautiful patch of baseball turf in America. Small, old, eccentric, and a deep shade of natural green, it has escaped--with a few other holdouts like Chicago's Wrigley Field--the lunar module theory of the modern stadium: the physical analog to the wide franchises and slick operations of the new corporate baseball. This is a neighborhood park--no gargantuan concrete egg laid in the center of a vast parkingscape, slabs for seats, plastic astrograss, and conveniently adjacent to the suburban expressway. No, Fenway is rickety and ripe...
...great value, stepped up to the plate, leered above his animal-tooth lovebeads and slammed a home run. He loved taking his revenge. The next player proceeded to hit another homer, and a Boston pitcher's bid for immortality dribbled away down the parking lot of Milwaukee's County Stadium. It might be mentioned that the aforementioned Reggie Cleveland, who is a Canadian, is an expect in the spot of curling. This sums it up. Most of the rest of the staff is untried and probably untrue...
...length of time without twanging chords that reverberate in the teen-age psyche. What sets Elton apart is the fact that his appeal knows no demographic limits. Said British Rock Promoter Mel Bush, watching a sellout crowd of 75,000 file out of London's Wembley Stadium after John's appearance there a fortnight ago: "Elton's appeal is across the board. We had heads, hippies, film stars, lords and ladies here today." Says the star of the huge audiences he regularly attracts: "I can see four or five rows when I'm onstage...