Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before it ended, an explosion thundered through the auditorium. A 30-ft. wall of flame shot over a section of box seats and rinkside folding chairs. In an instant, the rink was littered with enormous chunks of concrete, shredded programs, crumpled popcorn boxes, splintered seats, twisted steel-and dozens of limp or painfully writhing bodies that lay in puddles of blood spreading over the ice. It took a moment for the horror to register. Then the gay chorus line broke in a scramble of skate blades and screams. A woman in the audience shrieked to her companion...
...explosion, from a leaking gas tank in a commissary storeroom beneath the audience, had blasted a sheet of flame up through 128 of the Coliseum's choicest box seats, catapulting men and women-many still in their seats-in blazing arcs through the air. Slabs of concrete the size of small cars went up 50 ft., then slammed down on a crowded section of folding chairs below the box seats, crushing dozens and trapping many more in tons of debris...
...vessel called the Rex, a converted U.S. Navy patrol boat flying a Nicaraguan flag and carrying radar, searchlights and a heavy crane, has indeed been tied up at West Palm Beach. Port fees are paid by the SeaKey Shipping Co., known only by a Miami post office box. The Rex's voyages are shrouded in mystery. It engages in electronic and oceanographic research, says a Miami oil executive who claims to own the ship. On her last sailing, Oct. 19, the Rex left with two 20-ft. launches, and returned last week without the speedboats. The Spanish-speaking crew...
...very first thing Elsa did in her life was to steal the show; she was born in an opera box during a performance of Mignon, in Keokuk, Iowa. "My mother should have known better than to go to the opera that night," she once observed. She grew up, fat and unhappy, in San Francisco, where her father was an insurance man and stringer for the New York Dramatic Mirror...
...taking over on the field the Yankees could at least expect a rise in attendance. Even if they lost, Yogi was sure to tickle the turnstiles. For once, Berra was speechless. He kept mum about it all year long, just standing there in the first-base coach's box "observing," as he put it, "by watching." A couple of other clubs-the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles-had ideas about Berra, too. The Yankees politely told them to relax...