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...Lethière and her son rise against a background of the Spanish Steps, not like personages in a theater of antiquity, but as people confidently occupying space in a real landscape. Civil Engineer Charles Francois Mallet poses by the Tiber as if he were heir to the Roman aqueduct builders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Probity in Rome | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...Atta boy. You can eat 'em up here. Go to Aqueduct. You'll make some bread there...

Author: By Paul G. Kleinman, | Title: 'He's Gonna Win for Me, Ya Know?' | 4/23/1970 | See Source »

...gorge won a court delay. Since 1965, Con Ed has tried to appease such critics by investing $15 million in plans to bury the Storm King powerhouse and create a park along the river front. Now New York City is also protesting that the project threatens its underground water aqueduct. Even with a go-ahead, Storm King could not be built before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Dilemmas of Power | 8/29/1969 | See Source »

...delights in tapping out his bundle on a certain New York router called Amstel. When Amstel whacked out all the other cheapies in a $5000 claimer at Aqueduct a few weeks ago and romped home by a sweet six lengths the Wellesley Kid was a heavy contributor to the odds-on price of three to five...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: The Wellesley Kid | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

...more than adequate. He then took his binocular case full of tickets to the hundred dollar cashiers and watched them push a bundle of coarse bills at him--his original investment plus their many happy new companions. He then bid me adieu and strolled to his Merceds in the Aqueduct parking lot and vanished into the Long Island mist...

Author: By The Scientist, | Title: The Wellesley Kid | 8/15/1969 | See Source »

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