Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result, Wonder has become what the trade calls a "monster," a star who can automatically fill any arena or stadium and whose records, both in the stores and on radio, transcend musical categories in their appeal. He has had 20 hit singles and eleven bestselling albums, and now he is a multimillionaire. A month ago at the Grammy Awards show in Los Angeles, the record industry's equivalent of the annual Oscar presentations, he came close to turning the affair into a one-man show by copping four major awards. The prizes included best pop vocal performance...
...ordering up a supply of commemorative beer steins decorated with a picture of Aaron that will sell for about $7.50 to fans who witness the historic home runs, the Braves administration spent the winter worrying about crowd control. More than 50,000 fans are expected to jam Atlanta Stadium for games until Aaron breaks the record. They will have plenty of incentive to throttle their neighbor to catch home run No. 715: the latest price offered for the ball is $25,000, put up by an anonymous fan in Venezuela...
Invisible Codes. Not all the extravaganza making is going on at the stadium. The Atlanta Chamber of Commerce has commissioned Sculptor Mike Matoba to produce a life-sized bronze bust of Aaron that will eventually be placed outside the Braves' offices at the stadium. A local advertising company has spent $20,000 to plaster the city with 200 full-color billboards depicting Aaron in full swing, with Babe Ruth's face hovering in the background. The mayor and Governor, of course, are planning to be on hand to honor Aaron, and even the Federal Communications Commission in Washington...
...make him homer." The Cincinnati Reds, though, are taking no chances. All balls pitched to Aaron will be invisibly coded to assure that the genuine home-run balls will be identifiable. Security forces will be on the alert, and one devoted fan will be at Riverfront Stadium every day accompanied by three policemen and $12,000 in cash to buy home-run ball No. 715 if Aaron happens to break the record in Cincinnati...
...where gleaming mansions and apartments house the city's elite. But the crown of the hill remains a jungle, thick with date palms and banyan trees, girded by two concentric walls that protect it from the encroachments of civilization. Inside the walls, amid the trees, are six low, stadium-like enclosures. Residents of Bombay know them as dokhmas-the "towers of silence." It is to these structures that the city's powerful community of Parsis bring the bodies of their dead, exposing them to the air so that scavenger birds can pick the corpses clean...