Word: opened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deciding that Thebes was out of favor with his god. In ambition, though not in tragic cost, Brasilia might also be compared to St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), erected on inhospitable marsh, at a cost of more than 30,000 lives, to gratify Peter the Great's passion to open ingrown Russia to the Baltic and to Western influence. Kubitschek also looks west, but inwardly: he proposes to populate Brazil's vast domain carved out by 17th century bandeirantes -half-savage frontiersmen-but never settled. In the world's fifth largest country, he says, "enormous fertile lands...
...land, sea and air, a capacity crowd of 42,269 San Franciscans last week flocked to see their baseball Giants open the National League season against the St. Louis Cardinals-and to help open their last-word, $15 million Candlestick Park. There has been nothing quite like it since the Romans, who had to struggle along by chariot, converged on the Colosseum...
...Frank Lloyd Wright, which has a turntable stage flanked by two side stages, a unique lighting system, superstereophonic acoustics; Palm Beach's 813-seat Royal Poinciana Playhouse, whose stage apron curves out to provide more acting area, or, in the case of a musical, slides back to open an orchestra pit; Hollywood's 1,024-seat Huntington Hartford Theater, lavishly decorated with relief sculpture; Phoenix' 523-seat Sombrero Playhouse, which includes clubrooms and an art gallery...
...studied for six to ten weeks. No treatment is given here, but all the men get exhaustive testing (IQ, aptitude, personality, "violence potential"). Mainly on the psychologists' advice, the state Department of Corrections then decides what prison to send them to-a maximum-security pen or a relatively open...
...Juan (Robert Mandan) to earth to see what is causing the trouble. Up goes Don Juan-into a most un-Seville world. He tries to guitar his way through a modern woman's window, but she (Beverly McFadden) is impatient with all that jazz. Her door stands open. He purrs softly: "To describe your beauty, night, which veils your modesty, would blush." "Modesty?" says the broad. "I only slipped this on because it's a little cool after the sun goes down." Her husband (Alex Reed) enters with unbatting eyes, offers his wife's new lover...