Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...stage for the Ed Sullivan show. When Ritt wants the audience to know that a crowd is present, he frames a few hundred thousand people cheering. Period. When he wants to emphasize the "frail nobility" and "still small voice" of a group of blacks praying for Johnson before the stadium in Reno, he sticks them in what suddenly seems to be a ghost town, and pans slowly, portentously, to the white-filled stadium. He handles his fight scenes-what there is of them-clumsily. Giving up habitual Ritt photographer James Wong Howe was particularly unfortunate in this respect, as Howe...
Sword Dances. Perhaps the most exotic welcome of the entire trip came in Moslem Indonesia, where some 50,000 Indonesians of all faiths streamed into Djakarta stadium for the Pope's Mass. A dozen warriors from Timor Island, wearing red headgear and waving machetes, did sword dances in front of the Pope's car as he was driven around the stadium track. An ecumenical procession, including Protestants, Moslems and Buddhists, bore an array of gifts -among them a copy of the Koran in Arabic. In his sermon, the Pope repeated once more his message of Catholicism...
...Harvard football team asserts its last-ditch claim to the runner-up spot in the Ivy League this afternoon when Harvard and Yale meet for the 87th time at 1:30 p. m. in Harvard Stadium. Yale is favored by six points...
Today is John Yovicsin's last in the Stadium as the Crimson's coach, and he would dearly love to close out his career as Harvard's most prolific winner with a victory over the Elis...
...there is convincing evidence that Harvard does want to win today. Last night, while nighttime hovered over the Stadium, Pete Varney practiced square-ins in the end zone. Over and over again. Down, in. Down, in. Hands up so as to catch the pass...