Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cincinnati, the wind-chill factor was 14° F., and there were 3 in. of new snow. So what? The groundskeepers cleared the field at Riverfront Stadium, and 51,937 fans showed up to watch the world champion Reds open the season by beating the San Diego Padres 5-3. Worries such as an arms agreement with the Soviet Union seemed and were a world away. There were tomatoes to plant (seeds for vegetable gardens were headed for record sales coast to coast), morel mushrooms to find, robins to welcome, the Masters golf tournament to watch. Yes, and income taxes...
Track--Harvard vs. Princeton at Harvard Stadium...
...plot revolves around a terrorist scheme by the Palestinian Black September group (Munich Olympics, 1972) to murder a stadium full of football fans at the Super Bowl, 1978, by simultaneously shooting 80,000 steel darts into the bleachers from the underbelly of the Goodyear blimp. The political motives of the principals involved, although necessarily handled mostly as a premise for suspense, are carefully presented so no-one can take credit as a sympathetic protagonist. Bruce Dern, as an ex-POW who was court-marshalled for making a film commending the North Vietnamese cause during his capture and has gotten nothing...
...have to order a box lunch to see the track team track Princeton around Harvard Stadium, right after absorbing the crew races. The Crimson-Tiger meet begins...
...mean Billy Martin didn't congratulate you at Yankee Stadium?" I asked...