Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...management. He melded the operation of five U.S. affiliates into a smoothly functioning division and cut the work force from 40,000 to 28,000. The division was later renamed Exxon Co., U.S.A. The consolidation left scars; some longtime Humble employees still call the Exxon Tower in Houston "Yankee Stadium." Jamieson became a U.S. citizen in 1964. "It only made good sense," he says, "because when you're dealing with U.S. Government people, you can't deal with them adequately if you're a foreigner representing a U.S. company...
...believed art could speak to everyone will have to go back to speaking to a small, elite audience. In the days after September's coup soldiers went through Santiago whitewashing walls as well as burning books and killing people they disliked. One of the 6000 prisoners in the National Stadium after the coup was a pro-Popular Unity singer, a man named Jarra. An officer in the stadium took a hatchet and cut off Jarra's fingers, according to a purportedly eyewitness account Kunzle reads, and Jarra fell to the ground. The officer kicked him. "Now sing, you motherfucker...
This spirit was a chief target of the junta's attack. Marxist literature and books of all kind were burned in the streets. Soldiers ransacked the manuscripts of Pablo Neruda. A folksinger was shot for entertaining the prisoners in Chile's national stadium, which had been converted into a concentration camp by the military regime. Meanwhile, the North American press pressed on; The Times wrote that Agosto Pinochet, Chile's new strongman, was "quiet and businesslike," "powerfully built," and presumably despite his predisposition towards repression, a man with a "sense of humor...
Thus far on the tour, Dylan's concerts have taken on the panoply of clan reunions. Hours before his scheduled appearance, stadium parking lots become agoras for hundreds who browse about looking at Dylan T shirts, posters and songbooks hawked by local vendors. They are subdued crowds-"laid back" in the vernacular of the present -but once inside they unite to buffet Dylan with waves of applause after each song. Roaring pleas for encores and repeated standing ovations are standard features. Lighted matches, signifying the rebirth of Woodstock solidarity, are regularly held aloft...
Even after a prospect has seen his last scout and heard his last offer, he still knows no peace. For weeks after returning from Ohio State, Bill Seibolt kept receiving giant postcards with pictures of the Ohio State stadium. Jerry Eckwood could not escape pursuit even at his brother's funeral; a recruiter from Oklahoma came to pay his respects...