Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether properly alarmed, lured by reward money ($31,000 and climbing) or pursuing twisted ends of their own, New Yorkers overwhelmed special police telephone lines. The main task-force center near Shea Stadium sometimes logged more than 100 calls an hour; the telephone company counted some 1,000 other hourly callers who found the lines busy. Fanned by frenzied tabloid coverage in Rupert Murdoch's New York Post, including a cliched open letter to Son of Sam and a sensational-and false-report that the Mafia had joined the hunt because the killings were hurting mob-controlled dating bars...
...point, the Rev. Bob Mumford, a nondenominational evangelist from California, halted his speech at the Arrowhead Stadium, where the Kansas City Chiefs play football, and called time out for "a Holy Ghost break." He began to shout: "Glory to God! Jesus is Lord." The audience rose and joined in. The Scoreboard flashed JESUS IS LORD and then displayed an illuminated portrait of Christ. As the excitement built, a gurgling sound rose from the audience: "Ye ked ee aky shangda." The Charismatics were celebrating the New Testament-period practice of glossolalia, or speaking in tongues...
...Catholic Pentecostals met at Notre Dame, and about half of all the delegates at the Kansas City convention were Catholics. Among the featured speakers they came to hear was Leo Jozef Cardinal Suenens of Belgium, a leader of Catholic liberals, who celebrated Mass at the stadium. At one point he began chanting, "Ad gallum hum ..." Was it Latin? No. he too was speaking in tongues...
What a pleasure it was to see the two of them again in a great baseball park, clad in the classic threads of the trade that made them famous. The occasion was the 48th All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, and this time Willie Mays and Joe DiMaggio were not flogging some TV product like Mr. Coffee or the sweet smell of Brut on a centerfielder's forearm. They were presiding as honorary captains. Looking back on it, "Joltin' Joe" couldn't help reflecting that no matter what else in the world changes, "baseball was played...
...building one block from Gracie Mansion, the mayor's residence, two boys with flashlights offered to escort people up the stairs at $1 each. Some cabbies cruised with their off-duty lights on, trying to negotiate high-priced deals, charging as much as $50 for the trip from Shea Stadium to Manhattan, which normally costs about $10. Cold cans of beer and soda went for $3 in Forest Hills, Queens. An ice-cream vendor in Greenwich Village did a brisk business. As the temperature in his refrigerated case dropped, so did his prices?until he finally gave away free...