Word: luckman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purpose arena that would serve equally well for football and baseball, a neat trick never satisfactorily performed. For example, when stadiums basically designed for football are also used for baseball, the outfield is likely to be so shallow that even weak hitters tend to turn into Hank Aarons. Charles Luckman Associates, the big Los Angeles architectural firm, decided on a novel approach: they designed a stadium that called for two large grandstand sections in fixed positions at the north and south ends of the field; the four other sections, paired on the east and west sides, were to be moved...
...move the massive structures, each of which would be as high as a 14-story building and weigh 1,750 tons? After looking at a variety of techniques, the Luckman designers, collaborating with Rolair Systems, Inc. of Santa Barbara, Calif, found the answer in air-film technology. Already used by Boeing to move heavy airframes about and by San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system to swing subway cars around at terminals, this new technology allows large, bulky objects to be maneuvered on so-called air bearings-thin (.031 in.), porous plastic disks. When air is forced through...
...fact, says Luckman's project chief, Samuel M. Burnett Jr., the stands can be maneuvered by muscle power alone. All it could take to prepare the stadium for baseball next spring is some season-end shoving by the football team...
...others in the running-John Lindsay, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty and Republican Representative Paul McCloskey-only Yorty has received a number of substantial individual gifts. His main supporter is his campaign manager, Sam Bretzfield, a Los Angeles garment manufacturer. Charles Luckman, the architectural mogul, is another big contributor. Lindsay, on the other hand, is running out of pocket and wooing New York moneyed liberal Republicans; he has deserted their party, but Lindsay aides are still counting on their support...
...Even a Shoe. Blanda has been getting his kicks in pro football ever since 1949 when he joined the Chicago Bears and played with such venerable old fry as Sid Luckman and Bulldog Turner. Son of a Youngwood, Pa., coal miner, George was signed out of the University of Kentucky for a measly $600which Bear Coach George Halas demanded that he pay back if he made the team. He made it, playing linebacker and filling in as quarterback and place kicker. Never happy under Halas ("He was too cheap to even buy me a kicking shoe"), Blanda came...