Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have other plans," declared Zayad, 47, as he toured the city last week, wearing a yellow T shirt that bore the message RIGHTS TO NAZARETH MUNICIPALITY. "This city is terrible," he said. "There is not one library here, not one museum, not one sports stadium or traffic signal. City hall is an antiquity." Indeed, the city hall is a rundown pile of stone that looks much like a prison-which in fact is what it used to be. Zayad's father was an inmate there in 1936 after an Arab uprising against the British rulers of what was then...
...perfect score can ever light up a stadium like the smile of Olga Korbut...
Elements Mixed. While waiting for their young players to season, Kansas City's management built a new 40,000-seat stadium. Built exclusively for baseball, Royals Stadium has some of the intimacy of the older parks, but also much that is new. The field is a Tartan Turf carpet; beyond the outfield fence is a 100-yd.-long wall of fountains and waterfalls...
...rioting in Soweto township, during which 176 people were killed and 1,139 injured in the worst racial violence in South Africa's history (TIME. June 28). On Wednesday, a crowd of 20,000 angry blacks, most of them students, gathered at dawn outside Soweto's Orlando Stadium, determined to march ten miles to police headquarters in downtown Johannesburg. Their goal: to demand the release of four student leaders arrested since the June violence...
...horse after a spill seen round the world: "That's a gritty little princess." A lot of time and tape was wasted on discothèques and street scenes. Pierre Salinger floundered through several such features until he abandoned Montreal's tourist haunts to report from the stadium itself...