Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...names and events in the festival included Donny Hathaway, Roberta Flack and Stevie Wonder in soul-oriented concerts in Shea Stadium. In an entirely different vein, the first day of the festival saw a reunion after 30 years of the Benny Goodman quartet, consisting of Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa and Teddy Wilson. Expatriate black author James Baldwin, returning to America from France, narrated his biography, The Life and Times of Ray Charles, in a special tribute. Other special festival recognitions went to Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, the late Art Tatum and the late Louis Armstrong...
...sure sign of the Soviet Union's continued dedication to the exploration of space. The original compound of bungalow-style stucco buildings, where Yuri Gagarin and other early cosmonauts trained, is now being replaced by a sprawling modernistic community, including balconied apartment houses, schools, libraries and a sports stadium, as well as tennis courts, soccer fields and other athletic facilities. "The population keeps growing," says Major General Vladimir Shatalov, director of cosmonaut training at Star City. "Now we've got about 3,000 people, including the wives and kids of space workers. We've even...
Hounded by newsmen and autograph seekers wherever he goes, he has taken to holing up in his hotel room on road trips. At home, he avoids the crowds by parking his car in the stadium tunnel instead of the players' parking...
...Charismatic centers. Though he is still a staunch champion of "co-responsibility" of the bishops with the Pope, Suenens now emphasizes that structural reforms must be accompanied by spiritual renewal. "The gifts of the spirit are given especially to build up the Christian community," he told the stadium crowd at Notre Dame. "After Vatican II we had to make a series of reforms, and we must continue to do so. But it is not enough to change the body. We need to change the soul to renew the church and the face of the earth...
...some mosquitoes." But he praised the leaders for their "sound theology, common sense and wisdom." Indeed, he said, the Pentecostal renewal is "not a movement. It is a current of grace ... growing fast everywhere in the world. I feel it coming, and I see it coming." And to the stadium crowd: "You are in such a special way the people...